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(epidemiology) Occurring at any time, occurring even but once during a timespan.

1965, Reuben Hill, The family and population control: a Puerto Rican experiment in social change:
This family empathy measure is highly related to ever use of birth control but not to any measure of continuous use.


Hello everybody. What does "even but once" mean, is it idiomatic?
 
To me, that's an error. It would make sense as "occurring even just once".
"But" could mean "only" too, maybe it's this meaning that is used here?
 
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