Meaning of more often than not in English
more often than not
usually:
- accustomed
- all in a day's work idiom
- as a (general) rule idiom
- as a matter of course idiom
- as per usual/normal idiom
- hardened
- in character
- in the time-honored fashion
- in the time-honoured fashion
- inveterate
- mainstream
- mechanical
- normally
- often
- ordinarily
- per
- prevail
- regulation
- surprise, surprise idiom
- territory
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more often than not | American Dictionary
more often than not
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Examples of more often than not
more often than not
More often than not, damage-control treatment was applied to documents that contained the material detrimental to the legitimacy of the emperor or the regime.
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More often than not, health promotion is understood too narrowly.
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More often than not, there are a relatively limited number of texts that constitute the main reference points in a given discursive field.
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The ' promotion of democracy ', although highly valued, must compete with other foreign policy concerns and more often than not loses the battle.
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For several reasons, economic models are more often than not misspecified, in the sense that they are obviously erroneous descriptions of the reality.
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More often than not, this capital is invested in real estate overseas.
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More often than not, such internal competition leads to the downfall of the organization as allegiances are split and kin unity lost.
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But more often than not they get in the way - of meaning, of style, of the naturalflowof the language.
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But more often than not, frequency in texts has nothing to do with frequency in the world.
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In fact, this representation is misleading, since more often than not, the participants produce the retroflex schwa.
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The addresses are rarely those of farmers because more often than not they concern spare time breeders.
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As a result, substantive discussions were more often than not reserved for personal meetings.
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Property-right regimes tend to be well entrenched and, more often than not, we are in a position of dismantling rather than creating new institutional structures.
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No signs of motion, no muscular nakedness and, more often than not, no signs of youth to disrupt this divinely-appointed order.
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More often than not, this research approach feels like a grab-bag of heuristics, biases, anecdotes, and experimental observations, rather than offering a unified theory.
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