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[ adverb ] many times at short intervals

Examples

"we often met over a cup of coffee"

Used in print

(Norman Kent, "The Watercolor Art of Roy M. Mason"...)

But even on these , the palette often takes_over while the shotgun cools_off !

Except for a rich friendship with the painter , Chauncey_Ryder who gave him the only professional instruction he ever had - and this was limited to a_few lessons , though the two artists often went on painting trips together - Roy developed his art by himself .

If the artist would study his work more thoroughly and move certain units in his design , often only slightly , finer pictures would result .

Often , in working out-of-doors under all conditions of light and atmosphere , a particular passage that looked favorable in_relation_to the subject will be too bright , too dull , or too light , or too dark when viewed indoors in a mat .

Long observation has taught Mason that most landscape can be reduced to three essential planes : a foreground in sharp focus - either a light area with dark accents or a dark one with lights ; a middle_distance often containing the major motif ; and a background , usually a silhouetted form foiled against the sky .

Related terms

rarely infrequently frequent

2
[ adverb ] frequently or in great quantities

Synonyms

much a_great_deal

Examples

"I don't drink much" "I don't travel much"

Used in print

(Frederick Mosteller et al., Probability with...)

In repetitions of the experiment from couple to couple , the votes of the two persons in a couple probably agree more often than independence would imply , because couples who visit the museum together are more likely to have similar tastes than are a random pair of people drawn from the entire population of visitors .

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