| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Happening or appearing now and then: fitful, intermittent, occasional, periodical, sporadic. Informal : on-again, off-again. See CONTINUE. 2. Happening or appearing at regular intervals: cyclic, cyclical, isochronal, isochronous, periodical, recurrent. Idioms: like clockwork. See REPETITION.
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