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  • Stop the car at regular intervals while driving long distances to get out and stretch your legs.
    — Amanda Gardner, Health, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Some shops are open, traffic lights are on and city workers take out the trash at regular intervals.
    — New York Times, 24 Apr. 2022
  • Hang string lights and attach cat faces by pushing a light through each eye hole, spacing the faces apart at regular intervals.
    — Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 21 June 2023
  • Using twine or soft plant ties, attach the rose canes to the support structure at regular intervals, starting about 1.5 feet from the ground.
    — Marie Woodward, Hartford Courant, 25 May 2024
  • The wall of the outpouching in each case was 5–6 mm in thickness, with rugae protruding into the lumen of the pouch at regular intervals of 8–9 mm.
    — Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 12 July 2011
  • The catheter is then used to infuse a measured dose of medicine at regular intervals or via constant infusion.
    — Kristi Pahr, Parents, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Boats depart at regular intervals throughout the day and into the early evening.
    — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 14 Nov. 2023
  • And if the distance is long enough, repeaters must be installed at regular intervals to boost the signal and prevent it from decaying too much.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Apr. 2019
  • Although the moon does pass by the sun at regular intervals, the perfect lineup necessary for a solar eclipse is often missed.
    — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 7 Apr. 2024
  • Nicole recommends starting by going from one corner of the room to the other and working around the circle at regular intervals.
    — Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Sep. 2022
  • The most important things to check are that the headline clearly explains what’s to follow and that headers at regular intervals throughout the content provide a guide to the rest of the content.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Called Tissot’s indicatrix, the equation takes the form of circles placed at regular intervals across a map.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2022
  • The infection would disappear when users turned their phones off and on again, which experts say consumers should do at regular intervals.
    — Joseph Menn, Washington Post, 21 June 2023
  • The standard candle that Hubble used in plotting his diagram was a Cepheid variable, a star that brightens and dims at regular intervals.
    — Richard Panek, Scientific American, 14 Nov. 2023
  • The standard candle that Hubble used in plotting his diagram was a Cepheid variable, a star that brightens and dims at regular intervals.
    — Richard Panek, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2023
  • But the new money has also led to a series of unsolved murders, and Scorsese grimly interrupts the action at regular intervals to show the faces, and say the names, of the Native American dead.
    — Vulture, 20 Oct. 2023
  • But the new money has also led to a series of unsolved murders, and Scorsese grimly interrupts the action at regular intervals to show the faces, and say the names, of the Native American dead.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Denmark, Sweden and Norway, for example, all give parents funds at regular intervals to help with the cost of raising children.
    — Jackie Mader, Journal Sentinel, 22 Nov. 2022
  • This variation should cause the balance to oscillate at regular intervals, like a seesaw with two children sitting on it.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Of those, 28 were administered cola at regular intervals, while the remaining 23 waited for the obstruction to clear on its own.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Shusterman recommends standing at regular intervals—even for a few seconds—to give the prostate some relief.
    — Laurie Saloman, Verywell Health, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Some people may have success with a grazing-all-day approach, which typically involves three small meals plus three snacks a day at regular intervals.
    — Mary Shomon, Verywell Health, 8 Apr. 2023
  • At the time Berenguer’s project was to measure every single tree in a few dozen plots in and around the Tapajós National Forest, at regular intervals, to calculate the weight of all the organic matter, or biomass, which serves as a proxy for carbon.
    — Alex Cuadros, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2023
  • For its term — typically six weeks, with payment installments set at regular intervals — there are no interest or fees as long as the balance is fully paid off on time.
    — Christine Romans, NBC News, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The even spacing between the shells suggests they’re being created at regular intervals.
    — Dan Falk, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 July 2023
  • These concrete details operate in helpful contrast to the back story revealed at regular intervals as the eclipse progresses over the next 90 minutes.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Like diet sweeteners to the soft-drink industry, such innovations come along in the legal world at regular intervals.
    — Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2021
  • The White House envisions the sub deployment to be followed at regular intervals by visits of other assets, such as bombers and aircraft carriers.
    — Sam Kim, Bloomberg.com, 26 Apr. 2023
  • The White House envisions the sub deployment to be followed at regular intervals by visits of other assets, such as bombers and aircraft carriers.
    — Sam Kim, Bloomberg.com, 26 Apr. 2023
  • But these reversals in the magnetic field don’t happen at regular intervals.
    — Quanta Magazine, 14 Apr. 2021

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