"at times" meaning in English

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Prepositional phrase

Audio: en-au-at times.ogg [Australia]
Head templates: {{head|en|prepositional phrase}} at times
  1. (idiomatic) On occasion, sometimes. Tags: idiomatic Synonyms: at turns, in times, occasionally, occasionally Translations (on occasion, sometimes): أَحْيَانًا (ʔaḥyānan) (Arabic), 有時 (Chinese Mandarin), 有时 (yǒushí) (Chinese Mandarin), 有時候 (Chinese Mandarin), 有时候 (yǒushíhou) (Chinese Mandarin), til tider (Danish), ajoittain (Finnish), välillä (Finnish), joskus (Finnish), parfois (French), de temps à autre (French), zeitweise (German), לִפְעָמִים (alt: lif'`amím) (Hebrew), időnként (Hungarian), néha (Hungarian), olykor (Hungarian), scaití (Irish), a volte (Italian), talvolta (Italian), di quando in quando (Italian), 時時 (tokidoki) (alt: ときどき) (Japanese), 時々 (tokidoki) (alt: ときどき) (Japanese), 자주 (jaju) (Korean), til tider (Norwegian Bokmål), til tider (Norwegian Nynorsk), hwilum (Old English), niekiedy (Polish), czasami (Polish), momentami (Polish), chwilami (Polish), às vezes (Portuguese), câteodată (Romanian), uneori (Romanian), иногда́ (inogdá) (Russian), времена́ми (vremenámi) (Russian), подча́с (podčás) (Russian), občas (Slovak), a veces (Spanish)

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