Occasionally thus encountered information on LR by starting survey (9)
I believe the answer is:
sometimes
'occasionally' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'thus encountered information on lr by starting survey' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'thus' could be 'so' (synonyms) and 'so' is located in the answer.
'encountered' could be 'met' ('meet' can be a synonym of 'encounter') and 'met' is present in the answer.
'information' could be 'i' (common abbreviation for information) and 'i' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'mes' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for sometimes that I've seen before include "Occasionally available" , "On occasion" , "Seem moist (anag.)" , "Not always" .)