at times

Idioms  

1. Occasionally, sometimes, as in Away from home for the first time, Mary was homesick at times. [Early 1500s] Also see at one time or another.

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Charter rates for the so-called Very Large Crude Carriers, the most-watched vessels in the oil trade, have surged during the conflict, at times tripling from about $100,000 a day in peacetime.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026

The movie touches on these themes here and there, but in the book Kip is, at times, more important than the English patient himself.

From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026

Byron Lill had to pause at times while he read out his statement.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

She’ll even, at times, fire it up to formulate a response to the person standing next to her.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

Dylan Thomas, with his high, ethereal voice and poetry that was, at times, incomprehensible, fulfilled that idea, whereas Hughes, writing about ordinary people and about a very mundane Harlem, did not fulfill that idea.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers