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Meaning of sporadically in English

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sporadically
adverb

UK  /spəˈræd.ɪ.kəl.i / US  /spəˈræd.ɪ.kəl.i /

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sometimes, but not regularly or

continuously:

• Fighting continued throughout the afternoon

and sporadically into Friday night.
• Though she likes to work, she has only done
so sporadically.

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• The security door buzzed sporadically as

residents came and went.
• They met at a nightclub and began dating
sporadically .
• They kept in touch sporadically until 2005.

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(Definition of sporadically from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's

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EXAMPLES of sporadically

sporadically
The new observations suggested that liquid water
might be present, albeit sporadically, on the surface
and that water still shapes the surface of the planet.
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Furthermore, petitions, correspondence, surveys and

communal accounts also survive sporadically for the
villages that fell within the wider administrative district.
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Information on artists and materials is given

sporadically.
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However, fauna and flora have their own limitations,

particularly when they are sporadically distributed.
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By the end of the century, however, the construction

becomes increasingly less common and is found only
sporadically in a handful of texts.
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One ad that appeared sporadically for decades was an

image of the father at the dinner table with his wife and
children gathered to eat.
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Small amounts of calcite and dolomite can appear

sporadically in silica xenoliths, but are more common
in calc-silicate xenoliths.
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This had been spoken and written about sporadically

over previous decades but sprang into prominence in
the 1950s.
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Support from different sources was highly valued but

was reported to be provided inconsistently and
sporadically.
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Research on this concept has continued sporadically

since that time.
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It is not just an ideal, but a very real possibility, and

one which is sporadically fulfilled.
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This suggests that a regime of increasing

accommodation was required to form well-developed
reefs, though reefs also occur sporadically in
highstand systems tract settings.
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In contrast, the father appears as a knight in shining

armor, returning home sporadically from exciting
events outside.
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In the first years they had corresponded quite

intensely, but later more sporadically.
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The next two results show that totally free matroids

cannot occur sporadically in a minor-closed class.
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Translations of sporadically

in Chinese (Traditional)

偶爾發⽣地, 陣發性地, 斷斷續續地…

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in Chinese (Simplified)

偶尔发⽣地, 阵发性地, 断断续续地…

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in Spanish

esporádicamente, Esporadicamente…
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esporadicamente…
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