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While growing up in Palo Alto, it was not uncommon for animator Lisa Hanawalt to pretend she was a horse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

Dr Marwa Kaisey, a guest on Tuesday's episode, said MS misdiagnoses are not uncommon because symptoms are inconsistent and there is no universal testing.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Although the condition was uncommon, its potential consequences make the finding important.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026

It was, sad to say, not an uncommon story during the last recession, when the unemployment rate rose to 10% and the number of foreclosure filings hit 2.8 million in 2009.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 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 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