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• And as often as not, a lot of that gets tossed out the window.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 31 Oct. 2020
• And yet, almost as often as not, the rains do stop, not just for a day or two, but for several days on end.
  — Jori Lewis, Discover Magazine, 2 Nov. 2017
• The star, who famously doesn't use a stylist, has been pregnant (almost) as often as not for the past eight years.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 27 Sep. 2022
• The best way to do that is to skip the commercial flights, packed with people as often as not already in party mode, and book a seat instead on an Aero jet.
  — Duncan Madden, Forbes, 9 June 2022
• Their home fans seemed exasperated with them as often as not.
  — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 27 Jan. 2023
• Jones serves dinner to the Protectors every night at 9:30 from aluminum trays, as often as not a cigarette hanging from her mouth.
  — Krithika Varagur, The New York Review of Books, 31 July 2020
• Nearly every key defensive lineman from 2022 is back this spring, but Hickbottom has been part of the first group as often as not during the early days of practice.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 23 Mar. 2023
• Ledecky collected another four gold medals in Rio five years ago and has 15 more from four biennial global championships and as often as not there has been a world record to go along with them.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2021
• Every sport has its enigmatic geniuses, players of supreme natural talent whose volatile nature as often as not trips them up.
  — Chris Wheatley, Longreads, 31 Jan. 2023
• The movie format where a character beloved by kids becomes a CGI creature, who is then plugged into a live-action universe, is one of the most casually technically astonishing of all popcorn genres — and, as often as not, one of the most stunted.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 6 Oct. 2022
• The relationship between the growth rate of M2 and inflation has been extremely weak; as often as not negative, rather than positive; and most often not statistically significant.
  — WSJ, 21 July 2022

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024