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What does sporadic mean?

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Adjective
  1. (archaic) (of diseases) occurring in isolated instances; not epidemic.
  2. Rare and scattered in occurrence.
  3. Exhibiting random behavior; patternless.
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Most of the work available to immigrants without legal papers is sporadic, and underemployment is a problem for many.
On the East Coast, sporadic records document louvars from Connecticut to south Florida and the eastern Gulf of Mexico.
The system is obviously working well since the litigiousness that plagues other countries is here only a patchy and sporadic affair.
Old, his face was weathered and wrinkled, but he always had a smile for the strange woman and her sporadic emotional outbursts.
She occasionally breaks out a trumpet for some sporadic, appropriate bursts.
He has yet to display the running game he developed in the minors, and his power is sporadic.

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