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Discover LudwigThe phrase "work intermittently" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It means to work in a sporadic or irregular manner, with pauses or interruptions in between. An example of using this phrase in a sentence could be: "The old computer would often work intermittently, causing frustration for the user." This sentence implies that the computer would sometimes function properly, but other times it would have periods where it would not work.
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Telephones work intermittently, the internet even more rarely.
I've enjoyed him, if not his work, intermittently ever since.
Telephone and power lines work intermittently at best, and often not at all.
Plouffe will work intermittently out of the Democratic National Committee's headquarters.
Unrolling digitised licence plates nationwide has faltered amid erratic registration price increases, and the speed cameras work intermittently.
In May 1823 he started work on his central masterpiece, the novel in verse Yevgeny Onegin (1833), on which he continued to work intermittently until 1831.
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At the time, Mert was working, intermittently, as a stylist.
The two mobile telephone networks are also working intermittently.
He has worked intermittently in security jobs but has had a tough time finding steady work.
TXtBlocker, CellSafety and ZoomSafer each worked intermittently until company reps walked me through reinstalling them.
Her final Hollywood film was Charge of the Lancers (1954); thereafter she worked intermittently in television.
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