1
as in regularly
at regular intervals
New editions are released periodically.
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as in occasionally
on some occasions
Though he now lives across town, he still periodically visits the old diner.
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Recent Examples of periodically
Over the next decade, Hawke and Linklater met periodically to read the script, refining it with screenwriter Robert Kaplow between sessions.
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Clayton Davis, Variety, 17 Oct. 2025
In 2024, the city, which periodically cut water to the fountain in times of drought, drained it amid what a city spokesperson told SFGate was an effort to assess the condition of its mechanical and electrical systems.
—News Desk, Artforum, 16 Oct. 2025
Denver Post Broncos writer Parker Gabriel posts his Broncos Mailbag weekly during the season and periodically during the offseason.
—Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 15 Oct. 2025
This suggests that snow leopards have purged bad mutations within their population periodically over time, which eliminated potential disadvantageous impacts from historic inbreeding and allowed populations to remain healthy despite small numbers, according to the paper.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 8 Oct. 2025
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Clayton Davis, Variety, 17 Oct. 2025
In 2024, the city, which periodically cut water to the fountain in times of drought, drained it amid what a city spokesperson told SFGate was an effort to assess the condition of its mechanical and electrical systems.
—News Desk, Artforum, 16 Oct. 2025
Denver Post Broncos writer Parker Gabriel posts his Broncos Mailbag weekly during the season and periodically during the offseason.
—Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 15 Oct. 2025
This suggests that snow leopards have purged bad mutations within their population periodically over time, which eliminated potential disadvantageous impacts from historic inbreeding and allowed populations to remain healthy despite small numbers, according to the paper.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 8 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for periodically
Recent Examples of Synonyms for periodically
Adverb
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The union regularly receives financial disclosures from every club, but under the condition that the union keeps them confidential.—
Evan Drellich,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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Considering how close Canadian fans were to witnessing Ohtani's greatness regularly, their strife and pain are understandable.—
Nelson Espinal,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Oct. 2025
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Unlike their alligator cousins, which are known to occasionally attack people, American crocodiles are shyer and less aggressive.—
David Goodhue,
Miami Herald,
26 Oct. 2025
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Certain medications that raise prolactin levels, pituitary disorders, chronic liver disease or hormone therapy for prostate cancer can occasionally turn those cells on.—
Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt,
CNN Money,
26 Oct. 2025
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Given the fluidity of the game, teams will often shape shift depending on the sequence being played — although perhaps not quite as frequently as Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta has previously suggested.—
Mark Carey,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
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It’s believed that the 13th-century castle is haunted by a magical imp who frequently visits the Markomanka and Hlíza, or black, towers.—
Sophie Friedman,
AFAR Media,
22 Oct. 2025
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As a defender in the English Premier League for 12 years, Higginbotham rarely had to fly.—
Rustin Dodd,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
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But pay decisions are rarely black-and-white.—
Johnny C. Taylor Jr,
USA Today,
22 Oct. 2025
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Depending on the depth, their skeletons can take up to fifty years to descend—a gentle rain continuously falling in all the world’s oceans since at least the Middle Cambrian era, over 500 million years ago.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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As portals to continuously evolving data, macroscopes can serve as windows to the dynamics of any terrain — personal or professional, local or global — offering key insights on our surroundings and even our place in the universe.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
27 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Lanthimos’s gaze, so exactingly attuned to human ugliness, has seldom given us lovelier things to look at.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
24 Oct. 2025
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Because Washington’s Zach Ertz has played his entire career in the NFC (previously with the Eagles, Cardinals and Lions) and the Chiefs’ Travis Kelce competes in the AFC, their teams have seldom met.—
Blair Kerkhoff,
Kansas City Star,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Periodically.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/periodically. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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