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The executive order he issued was a down payment on his oft-stated goal of making health care affordable and accessible to more Americans.
More than 200,000 Americans sign up for ACA health plans during special enrollment period | Amy Goldstein | March 3, 2021 | Washington PostThe sharp landscape of the Purcells is shot through with avalanche paths where this oft-formidable snowpack frequently releases itself and thunders down the mountain, destroying everything in its path.
How One Man Survived a Plane Crash and 5 Days in the Snowy Canadian Wilderness—and Went On to Help Shape the Modern Ski Industry | Cassidy Randall | December 27, 2020 | TimeIt’s an oft-cited statistic that 96 percent of American schoolchildren can identify Ronald McDonald.
The McDonald’s Commercials That Live in Our Minds, Rent Free | MM Carrigan | December 18, 2020 | EaterAn oft-cited example of the trend is Shopify, the Canadian company that helps shops create online stores that have gone bonkers amid the pandemic.
San Diego’s oft-delayed Pure Water project – a bid to create a third of the city’s water from recycled sewage – scored a victory in court Friday that could get the $5 billion project back on track.
Politics Report: City’s Big Recycled Water Project Wins in Court | Andrew Keatts | July 25, 2020 | Voice of San Diego
If the oft-talked-about college “hook-up culture” could be embodied by a place, it would be Shooters.
Random Hook-Ups or Dry Spells: Why Millennials Flunk College Dating | Ellie Schaack | January 1, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTThe evolution of style is oft studied but rarely understood in any comprehensive manner.
100 Years of Beauty Styles in 1 Minute | Jack Holmes, The Daily Beast Video | December 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFirst, the amazing and oft-commented upon speed at which public opinion has flipped.
The conforms of systemic racism have caused a precious grasping of your blackness that oft times seeks to destroy us.
‘black-ish’ Keeps It Real about the Invisible Black Man | Judnick Mayard | September 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTDespite the oft-repeated phrase “all publicity is good publicity,” most people with common sense know this is not true.
The Swiss soon found out that in Hephzibah he was dealing with a truthful girl; for the tale, though oft repeated, never varied.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3) | Charles James WillsFull oft, indeed,They gold and silver will despise, bills ofExchange preferring.
The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi | Giacomo LeopardiMany a time and oft had she pleaded, with tears, to the remorseless girl who looked so soft and yielding.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume II (of 3) | Charles James Wills"Surely there can be no harm or danger," thought Bessie; but she remembered the oft-repeated warnings of her parents and aunt.
The value of a praying mother | Isabel C. ByrumAs Bill looked over his oft-appraised stock, it seemed to have lost much of its one-time charm.
Mystery Ranch | Arthur Chapman
British Dictionary definitions for oft (1 of 2)
/ (ɒft) /
short for often (archaic or poetic except in combinations such as oft-repeated and oft-recurring)
Origin of oft
1British Dictionary definitions for OFT (2 of 2)
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