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Can I use "passim" in a temporal sense? If not what could I use?

Context: I've taken a lot of short training courses over the years. There are too many to list them all on my CV (resume)with dates, so I put
passim: short courses including...


I've considered, and rejected, occasional, regular, intermittent. None of the spread unevenly through time descriptors seem right to me.

ETA: thanks for the comments. I now think "sporadic" has the right scattered nuance, but I don't think I want to use it. I'll find some way to re-phrase itand avoid the problem.
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