intermittently

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intermittently

  • /ɪn.tərˈmɪt.ənt.lɪ/

adverb

  1. not comparable Stopping or starting at intervals. The Hariri-Aoun agreement has shown that Hezbollah can bring the national political system to a halt. This happened in the past several years, and it worsened conditions in sectors such as foreign debt, electricity output, rubbish collection, water delivery, and other essential services, to the disc

    Similar: flakily, sporadically, unreliably

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Closest in meaning: sporadically, occasionally, periodically, sometimes, separately, discontinuously, forth, blinking, irregularly, erratically, episodically, fitfully, on-and-off, patchily, cyclically, alternately

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adv Stopping or starting at intervals

Españolintermitentemente
Portuguêsintermitentemente
Françaisintermittemment, par intermittence
Deutschabsatzweise
Italianointermittentemente
Русскийпериоди́чески periodíčeski, с перерывами s pereryvami, вре́мя от вре́мени vrémja ot vrémeni, толчками tolčkami, скачками skačkami, скачкообразно skačkoobrazno

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@misc{intermittently_2026,
  title = {intermittently},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/intermittently},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}