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Kiarostami isn’t one to judge his subjects—who, often as not, are just ordinary people.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025
As often as not, he said, it leads to “a dark existential uncertainty about what makes people tick.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2024
DOWNEY: The way Chris wrote it was meant to be, as often as not, Oppenheimer’s subjective experience.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 14, 2023
By then he had jettisoned his first name: The English, he discovered, were flummoxed by the guttural consonant of “Chaim” and pronounced his name “Shame” as often as not.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2023
If you look closely at epidemic ideas or messages, as often as not the elements that make them sticky turn out to be as small and as seemingly trivial as Wunderman s gold box.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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