seldom
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World affairs seldom provide easy answers, however, and developments elsewhere have threatened to undermine his efforts to bring down fuel prices before they provide any political benefit.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
Real estate has always gone in cycles, boom followed by bust, and there is no particular reason to think “this time is different,” because in finance it seldom is.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
For the Dodgers, the worst tickets seldom fall to market rate, because the team would rather live with a few empty seats rather than condition fans to hold out for a lower price.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
Crashes in a moving group of riders—the peloton—are especially hazardous because there’s little opportunity to react, and seldom any room to maneuver.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
This happened so seldom that it was always an occasion, and to round it off we would go to the tannery to see our sons.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
Vocabulary lists containing seldom
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 7–11
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