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Chief among Jonas’s callouts is China’s control of magnetic rare earths, which are used to make motors that are key to actuation systems.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

But in a rare interview with the BBC before diplomatic relations were severed, Eritrea's Information Minister Yemane Gebremeskel rejected the accusations.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

Home buyers face a rare combination of mortgage rates breaking through 7% and home prices hitting record highs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

This time, however, the threat came from inside the cockpit itself, an extremely rare occurrence.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

She recalled how the Incorrigibles still preferred their meat cooked quite rare and doused with ketchup; perhaps the sandwiches had only been an occasional treat during their formative years.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

Then she saw on the monitor a characteristic “elbow” and realized that what she was seeing was much rarer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 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

Larger or more widespread CMN are much rarer, occurring in about one in 10,000 to 20,000 births.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

Some of the rarer elements are generated in the supernova explosion itself.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

A restored wetland in Cheshire is now home to almost two-thirds of the UK's breeding black-necked grebes, one of the country's rarest breeding birds.

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

Fashionistas known as sneakerheads scramble to buy and trade the latest styles, paying a premium for the rarest pairs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

Then he tilted back his head and roared with laughter as if I had told the rarest jest of all.

From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi

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

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

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

Americans had fins on their cars, gas in the tanks, and money in their pockets, and were raring to hit those new interstates.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2024

Old Rowdy thought we were going possum hunting and he was raring to go.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls