intermittent
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Experts point to strategies companies use to encourage scrolling, like never-ending feeds, intermittent rewards and time-sensitive notifications.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
Britain has controlled the islands since 1833, following earlier periods of intermittent French, Spanish and British settlement and competing Argentine claims.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
In the years since their fighters swept into Kabul on 15 August 2021, they've grown in confidence and consolidated control despite intermittent attacks by armed opposition groups based abroad, as well as Islamic State fighters.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Its work includes investigating intermittent fasting as a treatment for obesity and associated health problems, along with studying whether bone markers can help predict cardiovascular risk.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026
So he mounted the stairs, the worn bare treads, the cracked and scaling wall on one side, the balustrade with its intermittent missing spindles on the other.
From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner
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