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Eventually I found a sort of wiggly way out by writing someone else's poetry with Katerina Brac (1985)" – his "translations" of a fictional eastern European poet, the first of several personas he has periodically adopted ever since.
Just a small note: just because Hugh Jackman in Les Miserables absolutely destroyed the credibility of vibrato doesn't mean you can't deploy it periodically.
State records indicate that employees at a Houston area pesticide plant where a poisonous gas leak killed four workers in November may have been periodically exposed to the dangerous fumes for years.
His manner is slightly awkward, vagueness punctuated by sudden bursts of lyricism; he has a reputation for being glum but is engagingly animated, if only periodically.
My own favourite is the Christmas ghost story, something which came about in the Victorian era but has been periodically revived.
"The report said this was periodically collected and interred with great care in the rose garden.
Bloated public payrolls, stupid subsidies for uncompetitive industries, underinvestment in science, technology and education, corruption, tax exemption for the professional classes etc – you can't afford that kind of laissez-faire unless you periodically devaluate your currency.
The team shot mostly 35mm black-and-white film, but Stevens also shot a personal diary using a 16mm camera and Kodachrome film, periodically sending the film boxes to his family home in north Hollywood.
Blocks of flats huddle together, boxing the ground in on three sides, washing strung from one side of the street to the next, periodically dropping pants on the pavement.
After a plane crash, a man stumbles through a landscape of endless snow, carrying a chair on which he periodically sits, only to find himself rapidly buried by falling snow; then he gets up to repeat these actions over and over.
As Huw Richards puts it in this retrospective article for ESPN: "Trench warfare, which periodically sent men over the top in doomed assaults on machine-gun toting adversaries, might have been designed specifically as a means of killing rugby players".
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The adverb "periodically" modifies verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs , indicating that an action or state occurs at more or less regular intervals. Ludwig shows this through numerous examples in different contexts. Its function is to specify the frequency of an event.
Expression frequency: Very common
