Ari Melber

TV is still a 'push' medium - we are broadcasting into any home or business with basic cable, and depending on what's happening in the world, we have a wider audience, from news junkies to very sporadic viewers. On TV, you want your reporting to be valuable to that entire audience and be relevant.

American Journalist

Sebastian Coe

Inspirational leaders need to have a winning mentality in order to inspire respect. It is hard to trust in the leadership of someone who is half-hearted about their purpose, or only sporadic in focus or enthusiasm.

British Politician

Josh Holloway

Years and years ago, I sang at a blues bar with a band behind me. It was with my friend, my guitar teacher at the time. I took some sporadic lessons.

American Actor

Eminem

Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know I've written a whole song in an hour.

American Rapper

Chris Hemsworth

I have sporadic OCD cleaning moments around the house. But then I get lazy and I'm cured. It's a very inconsistent personality trait.

Australian Actor

Zaytoven

Anything that me and Gucci do is never thought out or planned real deeply. We always just go off of what we feeling. It's sporadic.

American Musician

Urjit Patel

There is little room for complacency, and it is important to guard against sporadic volatility in financial markets.

Indian Economist

Helen Garner

I don't understand my own sporadic collapses into passivity. Perhaps I never will.

Australian Novelist

Rupert Friend

I am a very sporadic watcher of television. I don't watch a lot of it.

English Actor

Iman Shumpert

The way I have played throughout my career has been sporadic.

American Athlete

Sporadic events can be surprising as they don't follow a pattern.

Not Predictable

Use 'sporadic' when something doesn't happen at set times.

No Routine

'Sporadic' suggests a lack of consistency and regularity.

Not Constant

'Sporadic' indicates things are spread out over an area, not clustered.

Wide Dispersion

Describes a pattern where things are not close together.

Not Concentrated

Use 'sporadic' to talk about things that appear alone or in small numbers.

Isolated Appearances

In medicine, 'sporadic' means cases happen without a set pattern.

Random Medical Events

'Sporadic' can describe diseases that occur without clear cause.

Unpredictable Disease

Mutations described as 'sporadic' appear randomly, not due to inheritance.

Irregular Mutations

 Now, entrepreneurs need patient capital for three reasons. First, they tend to work in markets where people make one, two, three dollars a day and they are making all of their decisions within that income level. Second, the geographies in which they work have terrible infrastructure -- no roads to speak of, sporadic electricity

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 this sky is electric it is dark it is illness and it's gonna be some night ahead I can only hope we make it back safely in time before the absolute time for that is on its way makes it to us but for now we did try to give you a view of the light night but it's been very sporadic all of a sudden and we're

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 and wrote in his journal about how easily he could conquer and enslave all of them." "Oh, come on. Everyone was fighting each other back then. Didn't the natives even tell Columbus about other tribes raiding and taking captives?" "Yes, but tribal warfare was sporadic and limited.

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 this is out of ten you would say ten out of ten and this grows very very well on nutrient-rich soils here in the sabi sands we find it in small sporadic places it's got nothing to do with an overall layout but in the Mara this is the dominant grass species that brings

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 Some survivors experienced delayed or deferred admission due to limited bed capacity. No bed available for one more patient. This is neither national policy nor officially condoned, but many people are still afraid of the sporadic resurgence of Ebola virus.

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 And these are individual potassium ions that are flowing through that pore. Now, this pore can open and close. But, when it's open, because these ions have to line up and flow through, one at a time, you get a kind of sporadic, not steady --

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 the water or lie motionless on the bank the first thing you notice is that they were unresponsive often you thought the alligator was dead on the shoreline only sporadic twitches give away that they're still alive

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 Despite sporadic unrest, their reign remained secure until 1422, when Henry V's death in a military campaign left an infant Henry VI as king. Weak-willed and dominated by advisors,

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 He loves these guys. He loves them like I do. He loves these families. He knows them like I do. Let's go, one. So, guys, let the sporadic shooting be really sporadic.

Sporadic

Happening sometimes, not regularly or continuously.

Often appears as...

Spread out or scattered.

Often appears as...

Occurring in irregular instances.

Often appears as...

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Not Predictable

No Routine

Not Constant

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