seldom
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World affairs seldom provide easy answers, however, and developments elsewhere have threatened to undermine his efforts to bring down fuel prices before they provide any political benefit.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
Real estate has always gone in cycles, boom followed by bust, and there is no particular reason to think “this time is different,” because in finance it seldom is.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
GDP, what we spend on stuff, and GDI, what we earn producing stuff, are supposed to equal but seldom do for technical reasons, and indeed nominal GDI is running ahead of nominal GDP.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
He seldom checks his phone and admits he’s not good at returning texts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
His father and his mother and his brother George seldom could locate him by looking for him—usually they had to call him; and the house often echoed with cries of “Stuart! Stooo-art!”
From "Stuart Little" by E.B. White
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 7–11
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