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How to use the word infrequent in a Sentence?

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It is not unheard of or infrequent for the media to discover fraud, but for the media to become part of the fraud -- or part of the story, if you will -- that's less common.

Miriam Baer

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Unfortunately, because arrests happen in less than 3 percent of reported thefts, these cases are rarely presented to us for prosecution — and when they are, we prosecute the vast majority of them, but because arrests are so infrequent, our office has been proactively partnering with stores like Walgreens on prevention programs as well as partnering with other jurisdictions — which last year, led to the recovery of over $ 11 million in stolen merchandise.

Chesa Boudin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Communities and farms with large numbers of cicadas emerging at once may have a substantial noise issue, hopefully, any annoyance at the disturbance is tempered by just how infrequent -- and amazing -- this event is.

Eric Day

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We just thought that was the result of my dad being away from her for the last five days, which was very very very infrequent in their lives together.

Adrian Baker

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The problem is most of the time when International IHRs do contact investigations the time window for measles is narrow... International IHRs are hearing about it after the fact so [ International IHRs ] ability to know about cases before they travel is infrequent.

Martin Cetron

Found on CNN
4 years ago

These are interesting organisms and range in scale from massive global epidemics -- cholera -- to infrequent but lethal infections -- Vibrio vulnificus.

Rita Colwell

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Certainly it is concerning because it’s happened twice in 24 hours, we know that historically these bites are pretty infrequent.

Claire Simeone

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

We were able to show that with this very infrequent administration, patients were able to achieve a level of remission that we didn't see with the other active comparator in this study.

Brian Apatoff

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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