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# sometimes

adverb

«sometimes» in the English dictionary: in Wikipedia — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## In Wikipedia

Source: the Wikipedia dictionary, from the English Wikipedia articles Mova reads whole. Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). A draft: made natively by Nautilus, one of Mova's workers, from Mova's own counts; not reviewed. Not part of Mova: never in its repository, releases or programs.

### Counted by Mova

205 uses in 129 of the 531 articles of the Wikipedia school's corpus; as an adverb in 205 of 205. By the class of the article: city 42, country 33, agglomeration 22, other 13. Most often with: «refer», «city», «call», «also», «consider».

### Examples

- ATI often produced 'Pro' versions with higher clock speeds, and sometimes an extreme 'XT' version, and even more recently 'XT Platinum Edition (PE)' and 'XTX' versions. — [ATI Technologies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATI_Technologies), sentence 55 («wiki:ATI\_Technologies:55»)
- Before the 20th century, the region was sometimes referred to in English language sources as Abhasia. — [Abkhazia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abkhazia), sentence 23 («wiki:Abkhazia:23»)
- The name "Accra" sometimes refers to the territory of the Accra Metropolitan District as it existed before 2008, when it covered 199.4 km2. — [Accra](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accra), sentence 3 («wiki:Accra:3»)

### Note

Draft: made natively by Nautilus from the Wikipedia school's corpus; the counts and examples are Mova's own, the meaning is the pupils' dictionary's; no sense of this source is written yet.

### Sources

- From Wikipedia, [«ATI Technologies»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATI_Technologies), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- From Wikipedia, [«Abkhazia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abkhazia), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- From Wikipedia, [«Accra»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accra), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- Examples quote Wikipedia; this block is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.