occasional

CEFRB1

/əˈkeɪʒ(ə)nəl/

adjective

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Intended for use as the occasion requires.
Occurring or appearing irregularly from time to time, but not often; incidental.
Acting in the indicated role from time to time.

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We are expecting an occasional rainfall.
Elgar's music was not created to be occasional music for high-school graduations.
He took an occasional glass of wine.

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But the truth is that plenty of artists from other countries make work that's bold, naughty or nasty, without getting more than a very occasional headline.
2003 April 17, Blake Gopnik, “Art That Advertises Itself; Saatchi's Ornate New Gallery Pits Young British Artists Against the Establishment”, in Washington Post
The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.
1963, Margery Allingham, “Ebbfield Interlude”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 95

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From Middle English occasyonal, from Medieval Latin occāsiōnālis and Old French ocasionel. By surface analysis, occasion + -al.