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It’s not uncommon for lawyers to work well into their 80s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
Car radios were still uncommon, but one afternoon, the airborne commander spent 20 minutes chewing out a Sunday driver he saw weaving and dodging through a traffic jam in Queens.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Remains from herbs and woody plants were also uncommon.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
The CDC says deaths from cyclosporiasis are uncommon, as it is "not usually life-threatening".
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
It is not uncommon to find college-level music theory courses that are largely devoted to harmonic analysis and its relationship to musical forms.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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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