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Time And Again

Definition: Time And Again

Time And Again

Adverb

1. Repeatedly; "the unknown word turned up over and over again in the text".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Time And Again

Synonyms: again and again (adv), over and over (adv), over and over again (adv), time and time again (adv). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Time And Again

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Repetition

Again and again; over and over, over and over again; recursively; many times over; time and again, time after time; year after year; day by day; many times, several times, a number of times; many a time, full many a time; frequently.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Usage: Time And Again

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I've told you time and again. (Old Yeller; writing credit: Fred Gipson;)

Convivial company, time and again. Dorcas and Phyllis and Glynis are sorts I'll agree are three jolly good sports But cream of the crop, tip of the top It's Mary Poppins, and there we stop! (Mary Poppins; writing credit: P.L. Travers; Bill Walsh)

Lyrics

You stated your case time and again (Head Over Feet; performing artist: Alanis Morissette)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Time And Again

DomainTitle

Books

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Time And Again

AuthorQuotation

Golo Mann

Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Speeches: Time And Again

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989Time and again, they proved that there is nothing we Americans cannot achieve as free men and women.

George Bush

1989-1993But time and again Saddam Hussein flatly rejected the path of diplomacy and peace.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Time And Again

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

time and again

23
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Time And Again

Language Translations for "time and again"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

shpesh (constantly, frequently, oft, often, oftentimes). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

хиляди пъти, пак и пак. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

屢次 (repeatedly), . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

tuon tuostakin (again and again), tavantakaa (every little while), kerta toisensa jälkeen (time after time). (various references)

   

German

  

immer wieder (again and again, over and over, perennially, repeatedly, time and (time) again). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לא אחת. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

néhányszor, ismételten (again, anew, over, over and over, over and over again, repeatedly, time and time again, to reconsider), időről-időre (from time to time), újra meg újra (over and over, over and over again, time and time again). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

imetay anday againay

   

Romanian

  

de nenumãrate ori (heaps of times), de multe ori (many a time, often), în repetate rânduri (many time and oft, once and again, over and over again). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

неоднократно (more than once, on repeated occasions, once and again, repeatedly). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

učestalo (frequently, oft, thickly). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

gång på gång (over and over, over and over again, repeatedly, time after time), gång och gång. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

tekrar tekrar (again and again, always, over and over, repeatedly, scores of times, thrice, time after time), defalarca (again and again, always, fast, for the nth time, for the umpteenth time, heaps of times, numbers of times, over and over, repeatedly, scores of times, time after time, times without numbers, tons of times). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

часто (again, frequently, oft, often, oftentimes, oft-times, thick). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Time And Again

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

quater. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Time And Again

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-d-e-g-i-i-m-n-n-t"

-1 letter: deaminating.

-2 letters: adamantine, amantadine, antianemia, maintained.

-3 letters: animating, detaining, emanating, inanimate, mandating, manganate, manganite, mediating.

-4 letters: agminate, amandine, amanitin, amending, animated, diamante, enditing, enigmata, ideating, imagined, indagate, indamine, indigent, maintain.

-5 letters: adamant, amanita, amentia, amidine, anaemia, andante, animate, anteing, antigen, antiman, damning, deaning, denting, diamine, dieting, dinting, editing, gateman, gentian, ignatia, ignited, imagine, indamin, indigen.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Familiar
6. Quotations: Speeches
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Translations: Ancient
10. Anagrams
11. Bibliography


  

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