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In its inspection of a Taylor facility in Colorado that processed the onions, the FDA recorded issues like dirty equipment and rare hand washing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

Convictions are uncommon not because allegations are rare but because the legal system is slow and flawed.

From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026

The roll call also revealed some rare splits between members of Democratic leadership, present and past.

From Slate ● Jul. 18, 2026

Past election reviews have found non-citizen voting is rare.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

Therefore, she now proceeded to do something quite rare and brave—something you yourself may find it necessary to do someday, if you have not already had cause to try it out.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

That’s rarer than you think and a good plan makes it rarer still.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 16, 2026

But Rodin and Michelangelo, as this exhibition wonderfully reminds us, achieved something perhaps rarer: sculpting bodies whose individual force, presence and meaning is entirely self-evident.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

ACT rainforest manager Ian Dow said the pockets that remained were globally important and even rarer than their tropical equivalents such as the Amazon.

From BBC ● May 21, 2026

It’s rare that an artist is given such freedom to create a singular work, rarer still to witness the birth of a new voice ringing with such clarity on screen.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026

Double sharps and flats are fairly rare, and triple and quadruple flats even rarer, but all are allowed.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

Until now, astronomers had mostly detected only the brightest and rarest ancient quasars, leaving too few examples to study the early quasar population as a whole.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026

Nevertheless, Haaland has emerged as the rarest sort of superstar: the one who can single-handedly spark a Cinderella run.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

A project to help save one of the UK's rarest native trees has begun in North Yorkshire.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026

Many of the news stories highlighted the threat to the unique plants and animals inhabiting the island off the coast of Santa Barbara, from plucky, pint-sized foxes to the rarest pine trees in North America.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

On the way back, he spotted the rarest and most delicate object in the wild, an old hummingbird’s nest, fragile and expertly woven, smaller than an eggcup.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

A group of Chinese billionaires, including Pony Ma, the Tencent founder, issued rared public statements supporting President Xi Jinping’s contentious handling of the economy.

From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2023

The citizens rared up and threw an anti-chain tax for a loss.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Every pitch, I rared back, and after a while I didn't even look at the target."

From Time Magazine Archive

Aware that Newton Minow got a lot of acreage simply by calling TV a "vast wasteland," Goldwater rared back his onager at a Greek-American dinner in Chicago and let the rocks fly at U.S. television.

From Time Magazine Archive

As he got near the barn, he shied at a rock in the grass, stumbled, rared up, and raced away, tail arched high.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

America’s top oil producers have expressed hesitancy about rushing back to Venezuela, but the companies that provide them with equipment and expertise are raring to go.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026

"Everybody's raring to go and loving playing for England."

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2025

The Harris campaign ended the night raring to debate again.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2024

Given that in early returns, 73% of voters in his district chose anyone but him, and Santiago is raring to blast his former ally, De León better toughen up.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2024

I’d barely closed my eyes good when T.R. went to growling and the mules commenced raring up and squealing.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns