What's the difference between often and oftentimes?

Often


Definition:

  • (adv.) Frequently; many times; not seldom.
  • (a.) Frequent; common; repeated.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Previous use of the drug is found in more than 50 per cent of the patients, and it was often followed by a neglected side-effect.
  • (2) Two of the largest markets are Germany and South Korea, often held up as shining examples of export-led economies.
  • (3) The pattern of the stressor that causes a change in the pitch can be often identified only tentatively, if there is no additional information.
  • (4) The sound of the ambulance frightened us, especially us children, and panic gripped the entire community: people believe that whoever is taken into the ambulance to the hospital will die – you so often don’t see them again.
  • (5) However, the groups often paused less and responded faster than individual rats working under identical conditions.
  • (6) But RWE admitted it had often only been able to retain customers with expired contracts by offering them new deals with more favourable conditions.
  • (7) These cells contained organelles characteristic of the maturation stage ameloblast and often extended to the enamel surface, suggesting a possible origin from the ameloblast layer.
  • (8) They can rarely be detected spontaneously but most often are provoked.
  • (9) Providers used the tests significantly more often to evaluate patients with cancer risk factors or for new patients.
  • (10) The younger patients more often experienced an acute arthritis with sacroiliitis resembling a reactive disease.
  • (11) Our findings indicate that Turner girls have a functional brain disorder more often than the controls, particularly at the occipital and parietal areas and in those with hemispheric differences most often in the right hemisphere.
  • (12) Lactate-induced anxiety and symptom attacks without panic were seen more often in the groups with panic attacks, but a full-blown panic attack was provoked in only four subjects, all belonging to the groups with a history of panic attacks.
  • (13) During these delays, medical staff attempt to manage these often complex and painful conditions with ad hoc and temporizing measures,” write the doctors.
  • (14) Women seldom occupy higher positions in a [criminal] organisation, and are rather used for menial, but often dangerous tasks ,” it notes.
  • (15) Delineation of the presence and anatomy of an obstructed, nonfunctioning upper-pole duplex system often requires multiple imaging techniques.
  • (16) Damage to this innervation is often initiated by childbirth, but appears to progress during a period of many years so that the functional disorder usually presents in middle life.
  • (17) Even today, our experience of the zoo is so often interrupted by disappointment and confusion.
  • (18) Diagnosis and identification of the site of the leak is often inaccurate, even with meticulous care given to placing and removing the nasal pledgets.
  • (19) He was reclusive, I know that, and he was often given a hard time for it.
  • (20) Also, it is often the case that trustees or senior leadership are in said positions because they have personal relationships with the founder.

Oftentimes


Definition:

  • (adv.) Frequently; often; many times.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Because of magnification, laparoscopy provides oftentimes superior visualization of the biliary tree.
  • (2) They oftentimes try to cover up some of these crimes.” Sweden suffered a suicide bombing by an Iraqi-born Swedish citizen in Stockholm in 2010, a year before civil wars began in Syria and Libya and unrest across the Middle East pushed millions of people to flee their homes, many into Europe.
  • (3) Involuntarily hospitalized patients oftentimes request judicial review of their commitments.
  • (4) Oftentimes if an active upper gastrointestinal bleeding site is not evident at the time of endoscopy, bleeding is attributed to any esophageal or gastric varices that are present.
  • (5) So that entire analysis is bogus and is wrong, but gets frequently peddled around here by folks who oftentimes are trying to defend previous policies that they themselves made.” Obama is scheduled to return from his vacation temporarily next Sunday.
  • (6) Generally, duplicative studies with similar test characteristics add little to the diagnostic process, and oftentimes confuse it.
  • (7) They expressed their anxiety and their fears and their inability oftentimes to cope.
  • (8) The authors note that this oftentimes forces the physician to make difficult decisions concerning what information, if any, is to be disclosed to an outsider to the physician-patient relationship.
  • (9) Marco Rubio, one of the party’s presidential contenders, told CNN: “The majority of people on the no-fly list are oftentimes people that basically just have the same name as somebody else, who don’t belong on the no-fly list.
  • (10) Pregnancy-related liver diseases are complex in presentation and oftentimes confusing to clinicians, leading to misdiagnoses and unwarranted or delayed therapies.
  • (11) A recent California Supreme Court ruling in People v. Clark adds legal, clinical, and ethical dilemmas to the oftentimes contentious Tarasoff issue.
  • (12) Obama said that the commutations are in part motivated by “the inequities of the criminal justice system”, namely “the fact that we spend over $80bn a year in incarcerating people oftentimes who’ve only been engaged in nonviolent drug offenses”.
  • (13) Oftentimes victims never have the chance to make it as a survivor; they die trying.
  • (14) Keratoplasty "à chaud" seems to be the most efficient method for treatment of inflammation, the most radical to restore the integrity of the eye, and can give oftentimes an accurate optical result.
  • (15) Treatment includes appropriate antibiotics and, oftentimes, surgical drainage of the primary focus of infection.
  • (16) As we have learned following the recent disclosures initiated by Mr Snowden, intelligence agencies – especially the NSA in the United States – have assiduously tried to avoid and get around such oversight, been deliberately unforthcoming and oftentimes disingenuous with even the highest government authorities that are supposed to supervise their activities and prevent abuse.
  • (17) Acute exposures and chronic conditions resulting from years of exposure to pesticides are oftentimes not attributed to pesticides.
  • (18) Impedance measurements can provide physicians with objective information about the condition of the middle ear, oftentimes more accurately than either otoscopic examination or standard audiometry.
  • (19) He added that his two girls, Sasha and Malia, were not included in the clay pigeon shoots at the presidential retreat, but "oftentimes guests of mine go up there".
  • (20) The implications of this assessment for common medical disorders, such as essential hypertension, and less common but oftentimes more challenging clinical conditions, such as end-stage renal disease, are potentially substantial.

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