Jeh Johnson

We continually evaluate the world situation, and we not infrequently make changes to aviation security. We either step it up or we feel sometimes we're in a position to dial it back, and so this is something that happens periodically, and people should not overreact to it or over-speculate about what's going on.

American Public Servant

Norman Lear

Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.

American Producer

John de Lancie

I live in such a free-lance world and I've done 'Trek' so infrequently, when you really think about it, that continuity really isn't an issue to me. I live in a much more undetermined, gypsylike world.

American Actor

Drew Pinsky

I, myself, have not infrequently come across recovering addicts years later that I had given up on. It is like seeing a ghost come to life. The transformations can be astonishing.

American Celebrity

Mark Goulston

Forget the empty platitudes; your star employee is not a 'godsend.' They are a person deserving of your not infrequent acknowledgment and worthy of appreciation and respect.

American Psychologist

Charles Edward Merriam

It not infrequently happens that persons without any other special qualification than the drama of their lives are precipitated into important political positions.

American Educator

Alice Walker

Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.

American Author

Claire Danes

Actors want to surprise themselves. When it's really good, you kind of transcend yourself, and that happens infrequently. Very, very rarely.

American Actress

Paul P. Harris

Much responsibility rests upon the shoulders of the song leader; it is not infrequently within his power to make or break a meeting.

American Lawyer

Christopher Guest

It's infrequent that that happens - great performances and magical cinematography and great direction.

British Director

Use 'infrequent' for services or events where regular occurrences are expected but do not happen often.

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In some contexts, 'infrequent' may imply a negative aspect, suggesting that more frequency would be better.

Negative Connotation

'Infrequent' can be neutral, without implying whether its rarity is good or bad.

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 one of the world's most boring experiments. All the participants saw were a series of faces on the screen, one after another. They pressed the button every time they saw the face. That was pretty much it. Well, one trick was that sometimes, the face would be upside down, and it would happen very infrequently.

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 And it's not infrequent that we're actually taking extreme risk getting up into these places to try to push back on our ignorance, to try to push back on this yearning for knowledge. And ultimately for me personally that's where it all is. It's about self-actualization and it's about acquiring wisdom.

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 sleep paralysis regularly and it may be linked to sleep disorders such as narcolepsy, many who experience an episode of sleep paralysis do so infrequently, perhaps only once in a lifetime. So you can rest easy, knowing that an evil entity is not trying to haunt, possess, strangle, or suffocate you.

The terrors of sleep...

 The reason words with R in the third place come slowly to your mind isn't because they're improbable, unlikely or infrequent. It's because the mind recalls words by their first letter. You kind of shout out the sound, S -- and the word comes. It's like the dictionary;

Why we make bad...

 no one says, "Elementary, my dear Watson," and the detective and his sidekick live apart for much of the time. Moriarty, the grand villain, only appears in two stories, the detective's drug use is infrequent after the first two novels,

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 Some of those genes have quite different sequences of nucleotides than yours, and some are similar to yours. Though it happens infrequently, our own nucleotide sequences can change as the result of spontaneous or environmental damage

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 is that it would be rare for them to have a viable baby we delivered her her baby she had a lot of bleeding and she didn't make it the baby didn't make it days like that they come they're not infrequent what I'm

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 fill up in one day of heavy rain it's a gift from the sky can't wait for it to rain now tracking rainfall over time is essential understanding drought patterns but with something as infrequent as a mega

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 that happens far too infrequently. And it's a conversation that had led us to crisis, to the biggest threat to the American way of life today, which is health care expenditures. So what do we know?

What we can do to die...

 They saw that, during the first night, participants experience deeper sleep in their right hemisphere and lighter sleep in their left. When exposed to infrequent sounds,

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