How to Use more often than not in a Sentence

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  • But more often than not, the Wolves will have to build out their back end through the draft.
    — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 10 Feb. 2024
  • Rain or shine, the roof will be closed more often than not.
    — David Moore, Dallas News, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The best, more often than not, are stuffed with goose or duck down.
    — Erica Zazo, Popular Mechanics, 31 July 2023
  • Yet in spite of it all, the series works more often than not.
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 June 2023
  • There [is], more often than not, more than one baseball in the air.
    — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023
  • He’s been right more often than not since taking over the draft in 2014.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 28 Apr. 2023
  • He also is poised to line up as a flanker more often than not.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 30 Apr. 2024
  • With three on the roster, someone will be on tap more often than not.
    — Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Apr. 2023
  • But more often than not, these big French groups are being lured to the United States too.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 9 Oct. 2024
  • He’s had a good year, and he’s done his part in shutting down the other team’s top line more often than not.
    — Dylan Bumbarger, oregonlive, 11 Mar. 2023
  • The product on the field, more often than not, is a high-quality brand of baseball.
    — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 12 May 2023
  • In the weeks since, she’s had some success, but more often than not the potato bites are gone well before noon.
    — Lindy Segal, Glamour, 30 Jan. 2024
  • But more often than not, clients aren’t just looking for a campaign.
    — Misty Dykema, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
  • But more often than not, at least in Season 3, Carmy fails to make good on those initial charms.
    — Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 1 July 2024
  • Because, more often than not, Buck has been there to describe them.
    — Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Maybe the Lightning or Penguins would pull off an upset in the first round, but way more often than not those teams in the 7-8 range do not.
    — Corey Masisak, The Denver Post, 13 Apr. 2024
  • Clouds are likely to persist much more often than not, too.
    — A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2023
  • The trick, more often than not, is to allow couples to be happy, but not too happy.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2024
  • But more often than not, their songs have a way of washing over the listener rather than banging them over the head with sound.
    — Britt Julious, Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2023
  • And in my opinion that happened more often than not throughout this whole process.
    — Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
  • But more often than not, guests will use the bath towels hanging on the towel bar instead.
    — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2023
  • That’s more often than not the case for Nelson, a third-year varsity starter and Ohio recruit.
    — Steve Reaven, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2023
  • These days, more often than not, that description is valid.
    — Talya Minsberg, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Yes, but: There's only one throne and more often than not, Georgia has come up short reaching for it.
    — Ross Terrell, Axios, 27 Sep. 2024
  • More important, though: This week and this game over the past eight years more often than not has ended in letdown.
    — Parker Gabriel, The Denver Post, 6 Oct. 2024
  • An offense still hitting the snooze button more often than not.
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 May 2023
  • While she's also been known to play with longer styles and highlights, more often than not, Berry returns to a shorter hair look.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 8 Aug. 2023
  • But brides keep popping the question, and bridesmaids keep saying yes more often than not.
    — Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 12 Sep. 2023
  • This choice was rare at a time of predominantly heterosexual relationships in gaming that, more often than not, didn’t give players the option to opt in.
    — Isaiah Colbert, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Where the film fails is the unnecessary and completely unjustified (as per the storyline) use of a horror track, and more often than not stereotypical treatment of the Indian small-town milleu.
    — Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024

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