often

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He often sets off alarms, he said, to scare people from lounging on his property, which sits about 50 feet from a public beach.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

What they often struggle to survive is the sudden loss of power.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

These conditions involve immune-related damage to the kidney's filtering units and often have limited treatment options.

From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026

The world's poorest countries, such as in sub-Saharan Africa, often still have high birth rates, but middle-income countries like India and Brazil also face a fast-dropping fertility rates.

From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026

“Miss Myrt didn’t have us do it that-a-way!” we bleated, as we were so often to do in the days ahead.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck