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  1. fits and startsnoun

    repeated bursts of activity

    "they worked in fits and starts"

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  1. Leonard Doyle:

    It takes a crisis to get a solution and the European project ... goes in fits and starts.

  2. Riki Wilchins:

    We are at a social inflection point on transgender issues, civil rights for minorities come in fits and starts. We're on an upswing now.

  3. Putri Pascualy:

    There is going to be a lot of fits and starts for the market.

  4. Patrick Finan:

    Many individuals with insomnia achieve sleep in fits and starts throughout the night, and they don’t have the experience of restorative sleep.


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