rarely
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Some clients complained that even if Microsoft reached out, the messages rarely made sense.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
Legal experts said that Trump's request to reconsider its previous June rejection was an unusual long-shot legal manoeuver, as the court rarely grants similar requests.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
By contrast, eusociality has appeared only rarely in other insect groups, including termites, thrips, aphids and a small number of beetles.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
A productive historian and polemical journalist, Hobsbawm rarely used archival research, but he knew European history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
But despite his Nazi trappings, he rarely talked about his political beliefs.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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Rosetta Stone's Essential Academic Vocabulary: Lesson 17
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