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Adjective: sporadic  spu'ra-dik
  1. Recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances
    "a city subjected to sporadic bombing raids"

See also: discontinuous, fitful, infrequent, intermittent, irregular, isolated, noncontinuous, occasional, periodic, spasmodic, stray, unpredictable

Antonym: continual

Encyclopedia: Sporadic

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