not often
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It’s not often that shareholders of both companies in a merger agree on something.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026
“We have high-school students who are often consulted, but not often heard,” Geffray said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
As an artist, you’re not often given the chance to shape the narrative of your own end.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
Earlier studies had not often included this type of objective measurement.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026
Although we are by all odds the most social of all social animals—more interdependent, more attached to each other, more inseparable in our behavior than bees—we do not often feel our conjoined intelligence.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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