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Definition of "more often than not" []

  • Usually; more than half the time; more likely to happen than not to happen. (adverb)

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Use "more often than not" in a sentence
  • "In our time wars are usually waged in the countryside, where small arms are used in so-called low-intensity warfare, more often than not against defenseless peasant populations."
  • "Though the nature of this proof-of-concept exploration is often confusing and mind-boggling, and occasionally frightening, it is more often than not great fun and even exhilarating."
  • "Drawing the worshipper into the dark and womb-like interior of Mother Church, they are carved with funnelling ridges, and more often than not even carry a clitoris-like rosebud at the top of the arch."
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