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But another factor might also help explain some of the recent shakiness: BDCs are more loaded with debt than they used to be, often in ways that are hard to discern.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

My misery is the certainty that I must be often in error.

From The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II by Barrington, Mrs. Russell

Nor do I think it consistent with the prudence of government not to guard against future dangers, as well as present; which precaution must be often in some degree expensive. 

From Dialogues of the Dead by Morley, Henry

Sensible people, then, may be often in haste, but are never in a hurry; and we tell others to make haste, and not to hurry up.

From The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. by Osmun, Thomas Embly

We passed close to the Osteria del Pino—where the meet used to be often in old hunting days.

From Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 by Waddington, Mary Alsop King