rare
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Those who go on to build or lead big companies remain rare: Stanford Graduate School of Business research on more than 4,000 founders of U.S.-based billion-dollar startups found 4.1% were dropouts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
And in April, Rickettsia, a rare but deadly tick-borne bacterium, was found in a person living in Sonoma County.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
US President Donald Trump's Middle East envoy Jared Kushner has held rare talks with Hamas to discuss the implementation of the US-backed Gaza peace plan.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
He told the conference: "We discovered what we think is a black hole merging with a massive companion star, shredding it into a disk that feeds the black hole. It's a rare and awe-inspiring phenomenon."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
The weather was gorgeous—one of those rare days where the blue sky reaches down through the forest of tall buildings and warms the soul.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
That overwhelming amount of ordinary DNA can obscure the much rarer fragments associated with early cancer, making them harder and more expensive to find.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
U.S. presidents rarely travel without journalists, and it’s even rarer for administrations to conceal the president’s true location.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
While smaller space rocks frequently burn up in Earth's atmosphere, large orbiting rocks like asteroids are rarer.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
Because it is much rarer than other types of Ebola, there is no vaccine or proven treatment, although various teams are trying to develop them.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026
We now know that there are two kinds of ‘new star’, one bright and relatively common, one very much brighter still and much rarer.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
A hidden population of one of England's rarest moths has been found at a site where it had not been seen for more than 70 years.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 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
Davies said the now "bleak" area was "far more" than a spot with a "beautiful view" out to sea and had been home to the island's "rarest and most valuable habitats".
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
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
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
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
"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
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
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
I’d barely closed my eyes good when T.R. went to growling and the mules commenced raring up and squealing.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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