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Answer for the clue "Occurring often ", 8 letters:
frequent

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 1 Done or occurring often; common. 2 Occurring at short intervals. 3 Addicted to any course of conduct; inclined to indulge in any practice; habitual; persistent. 4 (context obsolete English) Full; crowded; thronged. 5 (context obsolete English) ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a common/widespread/frequent complaint ▪ A common complaint of children is that parents do not listen to them. a regular/frequent guest ▪ The Johnsons were regular guests at Eric’s house in Notting Hill. frequent ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. coming at short intervals or habitually; "a frequent guest"; "frequent complaints" [ant: infrequent ] frequently encountered; "a frequent (or common) error is using the transitive verb `lay' for the intransitive `lie'";

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., "visit or associate with," from Old French frequenter "attend frequently; assemble, gather together," from Latin frequentare "visit regularly; do frequently, repeat; assemble in throngs," from frequentem (see frequent (adj.)). Meaning "visit ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Frequent \Fre"quent\, a. [L. frequens, -entis, crowded, frequent, akin to farcire to stuff: cf. F. fr['e]quent. Cf. Farce , n.] Often to be met with; happening at short intervals; often repeated or occurring; as, frequent visits. ``Frequent feudal ...

Usage examples of frequent.

The result has been that State laws have come under increasingly frequent attack as being incompatible with acts of Congress operating in the same general field.

He was not so concerned about a President staying long in office, Adams said, as he was about too frequent elections, which often brought out the worst in people and increased the chances of foreign influence.

When a townsman and frequent visitor named John Marston called at the house on the afternoon of July 3, Adams was able to utter only a few words.

He did not mind the frequent traveling, he had to undertake, but he planned them well so that he managed to complete his business within a day or two and return to Ahmedabad where he had his head office.

It was these frequent glimmerings of the man underneath the childhood he was shucking that swept Angevine with true passion for him, that stained her vague parental warmth with something more hard and base and breathless.

Kennerman and at the same time to bring those she believes responsible-- who, not insignificantly, are rabid antiabortionist and frequent wife-beaters--to justice.

And it still stands today, still frequented by Argentinian military personnel, right next to the venerable old Harrods building, that far-lost symbol of a far-lost friendship.

I was now frequenting the athenaeum reading rooms, where the very same loquacious gentleman whom I had encountered before, the mysterious Poe enthusiast, continued his regular appearances, reading the newspapers and gushing over the inept articles appearing in print on Edgar Poe.

Whenever tetracycline appears in the neighborhood, a Bacteroides transposon goes into overdrive, manufacturing R-plasmids at a frantic rate and then passing them to other bacteria in an orgy of sexual encounters a hundred times more frequent than normal.

With the assistance of a young doctor, named Romain, he made a number of small balloons, and sent them into the air at frequent intervals to see if they would rise into some current which would waft them to England, and show a way that he might follow.

He was well-known, at least by sight, to all night-living Baltimoreans, and to those who frequented race-track, gambling-house, and the furtive cockpits that now and then materialise for a few brief hours in the forty miles of country that lie between Baltimore and Washington.

Europe still frequent the port of Bassora, as a convenient station and passage of the Indian trade.

The same applies to several other patients here at Beaverwood, specifically those whose relatives have been frequent guests at Gray Towers.

Situated as it was between Cheston-on-the-Water and greater London, Bentley frequented it often, for the Cat was the sort of place one could get a clean, louse-free bed and, if a man were so inclined, a clean, louse-free bedmate to warm it.

Baptiste found himself frequenting the lab where Benoit spent her days away from jail.