Synonyms for sporadic
spəˈræd ɪkspo·radic

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1. sporadicadjective

   recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances

   "a city subjected to sporadic bombing raids"

   Antonyms:
   continual, unrelenting, repetitive, recurring, perennial, revenant, relentless, running(a), recurrent, insistent, persistent, repeated

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1. sporadicadjective

   Synonyms:
   scattered, occurring here and there

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1. sporadicadjective

   Synonyms:
   separate, single, isolated

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1. List of paraphrases for "sporadic":

   intermittent, occasional, separate, scattered, piecemeal, casual, isolated

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1. Emily Jamea:

   I think there is more benefit to sporadic date overnights than there is more frequent date nights, a lot of my clients complain that they are so tired by the time they finish the date, that they don't have energy left over to make love. Women especially seem to need more time to relax before they can get in the mood for sex.

2. Fabio Lambruschi:

   Changes in the climate used to be sporadic; now every summer is different.

3. Bharat Pankhania:

   If one were to draw a graph of vaccine coverage versus danger, it would be a linear progression, the greater the vaccine coverage, the less the dangers and the other way around, of course, we want to get to 90 % coverage, it is a tall order globally. If we get to 70 % and stay there, there will be many sporadic outbreaks which may overwhelm health services. Worse, it will create more chances for the virus to mutate and variants of concern to emerge.

4. Catherine Lomen-Hoerth:

   Treatments work best when given prior to symptoms starting or at the very start of symptom onset. This is something not possible with sporadic ALS because it takes time to establish a diagnosis, and by then, the symptoms can be quite advanced, while this treatment would only affect 2% of ALS patients, it may be much more impactful than other treatments for ALS, since it can be administered much earlier in the disease process -- perhaps even before a patient develops symptoms.

5. Cal Fire:

   Fire activity remained moderate today on The Tamarack Fire. Warm and dry conditions will continue through the end of the week. Sporadic isolated thunderstorms occurred within the fire area today but did not result in any new fire ignitions.