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sporadic /spəˈradɪk/
▶adjective occurring at irregular intervals or only in a few places.
– derivatives
sporadically adverb.
sporadically adverb.
– origin C17: via med. L. from Gk sporadikos, from sporas, sporad- ‘scattered’; rel. to speirein ‘to sow’.
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