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Outside of the movies, shark bounties are uncommon these days.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026
Even though these systems are uncommon, the researchers assembled a sample of 21 extreme debris disks.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
Vamos said disputes over warrants were not uncommon - but if the police lost on a technical error, they could still sometimes keep what they had obtained in a search.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
The loan structure was uncommon; most lenders offer ARMs with an initial five- or seven-year fixed period.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
They still don’t get transmitted directly from one person to another, and even their transfer to us from animals remains uncommon.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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 Frank Richard Stockton
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 Ludwig Tieck
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