"tantôt" meaning in French

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  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "adv",
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          "english": "We're seeing him shortly.",
          "text": "On le voit tantôt.",
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        "soon, shortly (used with the present tense)"
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          "english": "He was sometimes lauded, sometimes criticized; he was both lauded and criticized.",
          "text": "Il était tantôt adulé, tantôt critiqué.",
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        "sometimes (when doubled or multipled, suggesting contrasting possibilities each as likely to happen or happening as frequently as the others)"
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      "glosses": [
        "this afternoon"
      ],
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      "links": [
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          "afternoon",
          "afternoon"
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          "sense": "this afternoon",
          "word": "cet après-midi"
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        {
          "english": "We just saw him.",
          "text": "On l’a vu tantôt.",
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        },
        {
          "english": "We'll be seeing him shortly.",
          "text": "On le verra tantôt.",
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        }
      ],
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        "within a short time of now, either earlier or later"
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          "earlier",
          "earlier"
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          "later",
          "later"
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        "(dated or Quebec, Belgium, Normandy) within a short time of now, either earlier or later"
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          "_dis1": "13 10 18 59",
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          "word": "tout à l’heure"
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        "Normandy"
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        "sometimes"
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      "word": "parfois"
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      "word": "quelquefois"
    },
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      "word": "de temps en temps"
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  "word": "tantôt"
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          "text": "Il était tantôt adulé, tantôt critiqué.",
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      ],
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        "sometimes (when doubled or multipled, suggesting contrasting possibilities each as likely to happen or happening as frequently as the others)"
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "this afternoon"
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        [
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          "english": "We just saw him.",
          "text": "On l’a vu tantôt.",
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        },
        {
          "english": "We'll be seeing him shortly.",
          "text": "On le verra tantôt.",
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      ],
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        "within a short time of now, either earlier or later"
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          "later",
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    {
      "word": "quelquefois"
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      "word": "de temps en temps"
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    {
      "sense": "this afternoon",
      "word": "cet après-midi"
    },
    {
      "sense": "later/earlier",
      "word": "tout à l’heure"
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  "word": "tantôt"
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