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SPORADICALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sporadically mean? 

SPORADICALLY (adverb)
  The adverb SPORADICALLY has 1 sense:

1. in a sporadic mannerplay

  Familiarity information: SPORADICALLY used as an adverb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SPORADICALLY (adverb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

In a sporadic manner

Synonyms:

periodically; sporadically

Context example:

he only works sporadically

Pertainym:

sporadic (recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances)


 Context examples 


The most common of these activating events were observed in the RTK Flt3, in N-Ras and K-Ras, in Kit, and sporadically in other RTKs.

(Acute Myeloid Leukemia Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

Nasty 1 may also be shedding the material sporadically.

(Hubble Observes One-of-a-Kind Star Nicknamed 'Nasty', NASA)

Money from the eighth house tends to come in parcels—large chunks—sporadically.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)



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