rare
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Tesla’s AI splurge triggers profit squeeze and rare cash burn.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
Naturally occurring pink diamonds are exceptionally rare and often sell for tens of millions of dollars.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
Liu’s trade was a rare misstep at a moment of opportunity in the oil trading world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Having a baby at that age is quite rare, to put it lightly.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026
It was red, which made it twice as rare.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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Accidents involving professionals like the medical chopper crew, he said, are much rarer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
Postpartum psychosis, characterized by losing touch with reality and experiencing paranoia, delusions or hallucinations, is far rarer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Real surprises are rarer in the land of Too Much TV, although we shouldn’t knock reliable comforts.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026
Much less has been known about what the species looked like below the neck because fossils from the rest of the skeleton are far rarer.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 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
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African wild dogs are among Africa's rarest predators, with only about 6,000 remaining in the wild.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
Several British zoos are setting up so-called ark populations of the glutinous snail, one of Europe's rarest species, using creatures bred in a back garden in Ceredigion.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
JapanLA was auctioning the rarest Sonny Angels for hundreds of dollars, and that started bothering some fans of the fat little collectibles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
The Bundibugyo strain is the rarest of the four known Ebola virus species, scientists say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Sugar was considered a spice, though not the rarest and most expensive.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
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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
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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
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"Every pitch, I rared back, and after a while I didn't even look at the target."
From Time Magazine Archive
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People screamed and ran, horses and mules screeched and rared.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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Take, for example, a runner whose preparation for a race has gone perfectly and who is confident and raring to go.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
When his time at Yale was over, he felt raring to go.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
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
With England six days away from taking on France in their opening Group D game at Euro 2025, Sarina Wiegman's "special player" is fit and raring to go.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2025
By the time he’s out of the shower, Mr. Stevens has loaded the car, and Daniel’s two sisters are raring to go.
From "Every Day" by David Levithan
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