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sporadic
/spəˈɹæd.ɪk/
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What does sporadic mean?
adjective
- Rare and scattered in occurrence.
- Exhibiting random behavior; patternless.
- Not belonging to any infinite family; an exception to an otherwise orderly classification.
More meanings (1)
adjective
- (archaic) (of diseases) occurring in isolated instances; not epidemic.
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We refer to the varieties of the NGARONG of the Ibans and sporadic analogous cases among the other tribes.
The occurrence of non-predatory temperament with the class at that stage is to be looked upon as a case of sporadic reversion.
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But for this sporadic diving, the wrestling bouts which are common everywhere, the Nautch and the jugglers, India seems to have no pastimes.
This has left Armenia with only sporadic deliveries of natural gas through unstable Georgia, while other fuel and raw materials are in critical short supply.
In a most interesting lecture Brissaud shows the intimate relation between myxedema, endemic cretinism, sporadic cretinism, or myxedematous idiocy, and infantilism.