occasionally

adverb

ə-ˈkā-zh(ə-)nə-lē How to pronounce occasionally (audio)
Definition of occasionallynext
as in sometimes
on some occasions we occasionally stop for ice cream on the way home

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Recent Examples of occasionally The couple keeps their relationship fairly private, but Waggoner occasionally features Winter in posts online. — Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 1 Sep. 2026 Generally, the Steel City's average temperatures hang in the 60s and occasionally rise to the very low 70s, data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows. — Finch Walker, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026 Chan has occasionally talked about his education at the China Drama Academy, a Peking opera school where students studied martial arts, singing, instruments, dance, and acrobatics for upwards of 17 or 18 hours a day. — Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Sep. 2026 Tiki bars aren’t without criticism, having occasionally been attacked as escapist fantasy that appropriates Hawaiian or Polynesian iconography. — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for occasionally
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sometimes
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  • Shooting in a widescreen format that gives ironic grandeur to a squat, featureless town in the Texas Panhandle, DP Peter Flinckenberg is attentive to the piercing, sometimes radiant winter light of the region in the harshest months of the year.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Still, traces of background radioactivity sometimes break the subterranean silence, with that activity piercing through LZ’s mile of protective bedrock or even seeping out of the materials lining the detector’s walls.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2026
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“Occasionally.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/occasionally. Accessed 4 Sep. 2026.

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