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He found, for instance, that regular rewards speed up learning, whereas intermittent rewards produce behavior that’s hard to extinguish in the lab.

Unlike coal and natural gas, renewable resources are intermittent—meaning they don’t work when the wind doesn’t blow or the sun doesn’t shine.

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A University of Southern California study found that creating long-term behavioral change comes down to repetition, stable cues, and intermittent rewards.

Let’s watch radar, to make these intermittent rain chances manageable.

Sun poked through intermittent clouds, illuminating rows upon rows of the green Alaska Range that seemed to go on forever.

Internet availability was “intermittent” and other forms of communication scarce.

After six months of intermittent interrogations and several lie detector tests, Elahi got off the hook.

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The missus and the kids pay intermittent lip service to living on a farm.

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The brazen roar of the cannon is mingled with the intermittent rattle of innumerable machine guns.

After ten days of intermittent suffering, during which the valet had felt no apprehension, he had died suddenly.

Day after day they rode through caons and winding intermittent gullies, shallow basins, and dry washes.

About five minutes afterwards, in some intermittent flash of reason, he found he had got hold of something.

When Dr. Smith arrived, he found him suffering from an attack of intermittent fever, and hastened to render aid.

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On this page you'll find 66 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to intermittent, such as: fitful, infrequent, occasional, periodic, recurrent, and recurring.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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