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rarity

noun as in uncommon occurrence

noun as in rare thing; curiosity

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Then came a rarity from someone usually happy to absorb contact as the Bruins drove for a go-ahead score.

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High glaciers give it vital water reserves, a rarity in Central Asia, which is predominantly a desert region thousands of miles from the sea.

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The weed that is now a discomfiting menace was once a rarity.

The trial, which began Monday, has marked a pair of legal rarities in L.A.

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It was made of 99.999% gold—a rarity and the result of a sophisticated chemical process.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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