fortnightly
Americanadjective
adverb
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fortnightlies
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adjective
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Origin of fortnightly
Example Sentences
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The site's operator said monitoring continued to be done on a fortnightly basis.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2025
Evyatar is a former news editor and columnist at the Jerusalem Post, and the former editor in chief of its fortnightly magazine, the Jerusalem Report.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2025
Once a weekly, it went from fortnightly to monthly.
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2025
"Not in the history of it has there ever been anything like this. All other benefits have been paid weekly or fortnightly."
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2024
Now they were demanding monthly and even fortnightly reports, and pestered him constantly about the wisdom of his pessimism.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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