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. Jakob Kern:

   This marks a major humanitarian breakthrough in Syria, but we must remember that one-off and sporadic convoys can only provide temporary relief to hungry, desperate people, people need to eat every single day.

2. Zheng Lianghai:

   We're seeing an escalation of the debt problems, but so far, the problem is still sporadic, rather than widespread, and is limited to mainly industries suffering from overcapacity and cyclical weakness.

3. 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.

4. Sayed Sarwar Hussaini:

   There are sporadic shootings in some areas.

5. 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.