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Scott said it isn’t uncommon to get calls from nervous clients, particularly new ones, on days when the market sells off as it did Thursday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
There is a Shire Archive, but knowledge of the world beyond is uncommon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
This provision is uncommon as many existing down payment assistance programs don’t strictly limit the type of home someone can buy — only the sale price.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026
Aggressive behavior initiated by species other than honey bees was uncommon.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
It wasn’t terribly uncommon for the police to deliver.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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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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