as in sometimes
on some occasions
we occasionally stop for ice cream on the way home
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Recent Examples of occasionally
Its concentration occasionally did not.
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Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2026
Flory Bidunga, a player who seemed occasionally lost defensively as a freshman, became the Big 12 Conference defensive player of the year and a finalist for the national award as a sophomore.
—Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 2 Apr. 2026
Enjoying Ye has gone from defending a great, boundary-pushing pop artist who occasionally says unfortunate things to essentially defending one’s right just to feel nostalgia for him.
—Sam Goldner, Pitchfork, 2 Apr. 2026
However, some species occasionally behave in ways that recall their land-curious evolutionary ancestors.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 2 Apr. 2026
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Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2026
Flory Bidunga, a player who seemed occasionally lost defensively as a freshman, became the Big 12 Conference defensive player of the year and a finalist for the national award as a sophomore.
—Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 2 Apr. 2026
Enjoying Ye has gone from defending a great, boundary-pushing pop artist who occasionally says unfortunate things to essentially defending one’s right just to feel nostalgia for him.
—Sam Goldner, Pitchfork, 2 Apr. 2026
However, some species occasionally behave in ways that recall their land-curious evolutionary ancestors.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 2 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for occasionally
sometimes
Adverb
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Critters crawl out from their winter hidey holes to set up camp in your yard (and sometimes your walls).—
Alora Bopray,
USA Today,
4 Apr. 2026
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Life for a child should be a time of wonder and discovery, but children with cancer are sometimes robbed of those wonders.—
Ross Guidotti,
CBS News,
4 Apr. 2026
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“Occasionally.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/occasionally. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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