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The Bundibugyo species of Ebola is relatively rare, with no approved vaccine or treatment - though trials are under way.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

The Friday shooting, in a Christian village south of the capital, Amman, was a rare assault on Christians in the Muslim-majority country neighboring Israel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

The discovery offers a rare look at how giant volcanic systems rebuild their magma supplies after massive eruptions.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

The five-day mini camp was a rare moment of vulnerability for the usually guarded Doncic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

There were few enough like them, rare birds among a small people.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

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

"While large, tabular icebergs are relatively common in the Southern Ocean that surrounds the Antarctic Ice Sheet, Arctic ice islands are far rarer," explains Dr. Anna Crawford of the University of Stirling.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026

Elise informs Gemma that she has a special gift for making contact with those in the Further — and, even rarer, the ability to bring those spirits back into our world.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

We rarely visited them—I didn’t even know where most of them lived—and it was even rarer for them to visit the mountain.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

It marks a successful first year for a major community-led effort to restore one of the capital's rarest native wildflowers, vital for bees, butterflies and rare moths.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 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 Torrey pine is among the rarest species of pine trees in the world, according to the National Park Service.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

But she would be the only one, the rarest of exceptions.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

People screamed and ran, horses and mules screeched and rared.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

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

The Harris campaign ended the night raring to debate again.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2024

I’m up with the sun every morning, raring to go.

From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick