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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

Complete skeletons are uncommon in the fossil record, so the researchers relied on much smaller clues: teeth and pieces of jaw.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026

Receiving an inheritance in your 80s from someone other than a spouse is relatively uncommon.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026

“It’s not uncommon to try to define the market as narrowly as possible,” Syracuse University law professor Shubha Ghosh said in an interview.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

"I believe they are not at all uncommon at this time of year."

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman

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