every so often
Example Sentences
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IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva said the risk in the sector “keeps me awake every so often at night.”
From MarketWatch • Mar. 12, 2026
The best approach is to build a sturdy foundation for your investments and to treat crashes the way insurance companies do natural disasters: know the odds and accept that they happen every so often.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 7, 2026
It seems to happen less and less, but every so often, the stars still align.
From Salon • Jun. 9, 2025
Possessing no eyes, no mouth and no face, with an almost alien lurching gait, that nightmarish figure will reappear every so often, its return always upsetting and unexplained.
From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2025
A brief official bulletin repeated every so often said simply that order was being and would be maintained along the Eastern Border.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
