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Definition of By fits and starts
1. Adverb. Intermittently. "He worked on his book by fits and starts"
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Literary usage of By fits and starts
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1. Sobriquets and Nicknames by Albert Romer Frey (1887)
"... ligible by fits and starts) than any Englishman, except, perhaps, Richard
Baxter, who is said to have published three hundred and sixty-five plus one, ..."
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