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“Occasional” implies a rate at least several orders of magnitude higher than actual.

>>rogerr+(OP)
if it happens once a decade occasional sounds right

>>JChara+ah
So far this year alone, there have been 31,000,000 flights. https://www.airportia.com/flights-monitor/. So somewhere around 300,000,000 flights per decade.

If someone said an event happens “occasionally”, I would expect it to be significantly more frequent than 1/300,000,000.

Powerball lottery odds are 1 in 292 million. I wouldn’t say that I “occasionally” win the lottery when I buy a ticket!