not infrequently

idiom

: frequently : often
an error not infrequently made by beginners

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Science is communal in the first instance, a matter of clubs and, not infrequently, pairings. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024 And then there is another set of female athletes, including Maher, whose appearance some people have just decided is too masculine and who are being subjected to transphobic abuse and being accused of secretly being men, an accusation not infrequently leveled against elite female athletes. Ina Fried, Axios, 2 Aug. 2024 But the administrative burden of bagging and tagging is great, and one homeless person told me that, in practice, possessions were not infrequently classified as abandoned and then swept into the trash. Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 31 July 2024 Childbirth, before the advent of obstetric anesthesia, in the mid-nineteenth century, was a harrowing and not infrequently deadly trial. Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for not infrequently 

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“Not infrequently.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/not%20infrequently. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.

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