occas.
Americanabbreviation
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occasional.
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occasionally.
Example Sentences
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Then there was occas’nal moments of ple’surabl’ excitement, like the time when”—and he went on to tell of how an enterprising U-boat commander slipped a slug into the Courser abreast her after superstructure, and “beat it” off before that stricken destroyer had a chance to retaliate.
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Regarded as inseparable from L. t. townsendii by Orr, Occas.
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Shorry to be in thish disgrashful state ... thish sad occas'n, gemmem.
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There I set at night dhrinkin' absinthe, sherry wine, port wine, champagne, beer, whisky, rum, claret, kimmel, weiss beer, cream de mint, curaso, an' binidictine, occas'nally takin' a dhraw at an opeem pipe an' r-readin' a Fr-rinch novel.
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The Turk actually gives ten occas of his raw silk for one occa of fabricated silk, the material for which is produced on his own soil.
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