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Can 数々 be either 【かずかず】or 【しばしば】?

The websites j-talk.com and jisho.org both analyze the reading of the
following sentence similarly:

パンデミック発生後【はっせいご】、ニューヨーク市内【しない】でもアジア人【じん】に対【たい】するヘイトクライムが数々【かずかず】報告【ほうこく】されてきた

_Since the outbreak of the pandemic, there have been numerous reports of hate
crimes against Asians in New York City._ (translation by deepl.com)

<https://webronza.asahi.com/national/articles/2021101000005.html?iref=comtop_Opinion_06>

However, the following reading is also listed in jisho.org and Jim Breen's
wwwjdic:

数々 【しばしば】 _often; again and again; frequently; repeatedly_

However, there is only the 【かずかず】reading here:

[https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/word/数数/#jn-40989](https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/word/%E6%95%B0%E6%95%B0/#jn-40989)

Can 数々 be read as 【しばしば】?
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multiple-readings reduplication
Can 数々 be read as【しばしば】?
Short answer is yes, you can compare several dictionaries
[here](https://www.weblio.jp/content/%E3%81%97%E3%81%B0%E3%81%97%E3%81%B0).

For example, 精選版 日本国語大辞典 has

> しば‐しば【屡・屡屡・数・数数】
>
> 〔副〕 （副詞「しば（屡）」を重ねたもの） たびたび。しきりに。幾度も。何回となく。

So apparently even 数 alone can be used for しばしば.

I think using 数々 for しばしば is rather rare, most of the time hiragana is used. I
have seen 屡/屡々 in older novels, but never 数々.
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