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infrequent

Adjective

Meaning

Seldom happening or occurring; rare; uncommon; unusual.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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On the infrequent occasions when I have been called upon in a formal place to play the bongo drums, the introducer never seems to find it necessary to mention that I also do theoretical physics. Richard Feynman

Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog his race. William Kingdon Clifford

In silent movies, they tended to put the camera down, and everybody walked in front of it and acted, and then they all walked off. Cutting was quite infrequent. Bruce Beresford

The relation between an O. A. (Oblique Addict) and his R. C. (Recharge Connection) is so intense that they can only endure each other's company for brief and infrequent intervals-I mean aside from recharge meets, when all personal contact is eclipsed by recharge process. William S. Burroughs

My connection with the Reich Ministers was of a purely official nature and was very infrequent. Fritz Sauckel

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent. Franklin Pierce Adams

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