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on occasion



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Idioms and Phrases

From time to time, now and then, as in Nell has been known to eat meat on occasion . This usage, first in the form of upon occasion , replaced by occasion about 1600.
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"One of the aims of my father and John was to show that on occasion, the family of humankind could be joyous together and celebrate together," said Brasher.

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We would meet for dinner on occasion and there would be people like Sidney Poitier there.

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There were concerns he was repeatedly going missing and stealing; fears he was being exploited to use and deal drugs and that he had, on occasion, also left home with a knife.

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Unfortunately, I've resigned myself to the fact that on occasion, I might be susceptible to these kinds of attack, which is pretty depressing.

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Hancock has been playing the piano for almost 80 years, but the instrument still gives him so much joy, that on occasion, during a session on the keys, he finds himself sobbing.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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