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A primitive version of the idea appeared in Vietnam, but it has been uncommon since because most drones have been cheap, expendable vessels facing guns, not radar-guided missiles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
His arrival last August from Tottenham Hotspur in England’s Premier League was met with uncommon fanfare.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026
Receiving an inheritance in your 80s from someone other than a spouse is relatively uncommon.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026
Quasars that formed less than about 770 million years after the Big Bang are extremely uncommon because only a small number of galaxies had grown large enough to host them.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
She instructed, “Tell Dr. Trefusis I find him uncommon rude.”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
If this so-called thermodynamic effect were all there was to it, temperatures now considered unusually hot would become more typical and those regarded as uncommonly cold, uncommoner still.
From Economist ● Jul. 28, 2018
I should hope so," said the boy,—"the uncommoner the better.
From The Adventures of Captain Horn by Stockton, Frank Richard
The commonest thing is quite as strange as the uncommonest, only habit blunts our sense.
From The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck by Tieck, Ludwig
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