rare

Dissents from governors have been extremely rare since the mid-1990s.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 25, 2026

Over generations, the trait propagates through the population until what was once a rare mutation becomes commonplace.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

This has been whispered about and lamented since the COVID-19 pandemic led to temporary theater closures across the country that have since become permanent, but it is rare to hear it expressed so candidly.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

Chad Bown of the Peterson Institute for International Economics believes Trump is missing a chance to address bigger problems like China's rare earth export curbs.

From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026

It was rare that women stayed in the barracks.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

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

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 16, 2026

In Toronto, it was genuinely rarer to see a Portugal shirt without his name on the back.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 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

Live jazz is rare and getting rarer in Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

The rarer and more bizarre an object, the more desirable it was.

From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman

The historic observations, led by a University of Hawai'i at Mānoa research team, provide an unprecedented look at one of the world's rarest and most mysterious sharks without removing it from its habitat.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 8, 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

They hope that includes the protected Torrey pine stand, which is one of the rarest pine species in the world.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026

She was the rarest of kids my age: comfortable in her own skin.

From "Adrift" by Paul Griffin

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

Bass was also who she had to be — measured, forceful and raring to defend her record, without coming off as defensive.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

While Exxon Mobil balked at the idea of returning to a country that twice nationalized its assets, the oil-field service firms that work with national oil companies and Texas wildcatters alike are raring to go.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

The Harris campaign ended the night raring to debate again.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2024

This team is always excited to put the red shirt on and you can see both the players and fans are raring to go.

From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2024

I could tell Flapjack was raring to go, but ’less you knowed what to look for, you might not see it.

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis