every so often
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Occasionally; intermittently; irregularly; now and then; once in a while.
- Check on the houseplants every so often to see if they need watering.
- But Raven knows where he's going. Occasionally, he reaches out, grabs her hand, but he doesn't yank her around even though she's going a lot slower than he is. Every so often, he looks back at her with a grin, like, I could hurt you, but I won't.1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 321:
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- every now and again, every now and then, every once in a while