most of the time
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: on most occasions : usually
Sometimes I go out for lunch, but most of the time I bring my own lunch to work.
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Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 18 Apr. 2025
But almost nobody will do it all or most of the time.
—Brad Templeton, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
In the context of the financial world, the stock market — as something ostensibly based on concrete numbers, but most of the time driven by instinctive hopes and fears — kind of works like that.
—Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 3 Apr. 2025
There’s always a drop off most of the time after some type of premiere.
—Michael Schneider, Variety, 3 Apr. 2025
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Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 18 Apr. 2025
But almost nobody will do it all or most of the time.
—Brad Templeton, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
In the context of the financial world, the stock market — as something ostensibly based on concrete numbers, but most of the time driven by instinctive hopes and fears — kind of works like that.
—Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 3 Apr. 2025
There’s always a drop off most of the time after some type of premiere.
—Michael Schneider, Variety, 3 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for most of the time
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“Most of the time.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/most%20of%20the%20time. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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