Occasion and Sample

Occasion

Occasion noun - A particular point at which an event takes place.

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Sample and occasion are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sample" instead a noun "Occasion".

Nearby Words: occasional, occasionally, occasioned, occasioning, occasionalism

Sample noun - A number of things selected from a group to stand for the whole.

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Occasion and sample are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Occasion" instead a noun "Sample".

Nearby Words: sampling, sampler, sampled, samp

known	known occasion	known sample
particular	particular occasion	particular sample
similar	similar occasion	similar sample
specific	specific occasion	specific sample
Other adjectives: single, routine, infamous, random, last, recent.

Frank is unable to rise to the occasion to give a sperm sample, in spite of his wife's best efforts.

Source: Series / True Detective
Starbug, being a mining support vehicle, also has at least one "ore sample pod" that Rimmer uses as an escape pod to return to Red Dwarf on one occasion.

Source: Escape Pod
Mark Cuban in particular hates this sort of pseudoscience; on one occasion he actually turned down the free sample positive/negative ion bracelet the entrepreneur handed out.

Source: Series / Dragon's Den

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