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Combining measurements from Juice and Smile could give scientists a rare way to link activity deep in Earth's magnetotail with events occurring around the planet's polar regions.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026

This is what gets lost in the noise of storms and lawsuits and renovation budgets: Entertainment is everywhere, but inspiration is rare.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

We’ve already made fun of Eric Schmitt in this edition, and we will continue to do so later on, because it’s rare that someone is caught so red-handed being a dope.

From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2026

But in a rare interview with the BBC before diplomatic relations were severed, Eritrea's Information Minister Yemane Gebremeskel rejected the accusations.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

“Is your name Gaspar? Or Melchior? Balthasar? Those are very rare names. Is it one of those?”

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

Real surprises are rarer in the land of Too Much TV, although we shouldn’t knock reliable comforts.

From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026

Much less has been known about what the species looked like below the neck because fossils from the rest of the skeleton are far rarer.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026

Elise informs Gemma that she has a special gift for making contact with those in the Further — and, even rarer, the ability to bring those spirits back into our world.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

NATO-member engagement with a sea drone is a rarer event, however, and prompted European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Thursday to say that Europe was facing “an escalating campaign of threats.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

Maesters and septons alike agreed that children marked by greyscale could never be touched by the rarer mortal form of the affliction, nor by its terrible swift cousin, the grey plague.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

The 40-inch doll made by Carousel for Reubens’ JCPenney-exclusive line in the late 1980s is one of the rarest Pee-wee Herman collectibles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Several British zoos are setting up so-called ark populations of the glutinous snail, one of Europe's rarest species, using creatures bred in a back garden in Ceredigion.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

The Torrey pine is among the rarest species of pine trees in the world, according to the National Park Service.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Zoos, according to the reporting here, were more than happy to populate their exhibits with the rarest reptiles, whether they were smuggled in or not.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

She was tended to by a pair of sniffling women who took turns patting Mammy’s hand gingerly, like she was the rarest and most fragile doll in the world.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

A group of Chinese billionaires, including Pony Ma, the Tencent founder, issued rared public statements supporting President Xi Jinping’s contentious handling of the economy.

From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2023

Aware that Newton Minow got a lot of acreage simply by calling TV a "vast wasteland," Goldwater rared back his onager at a Greek-American dinner in Chicago and let the rocks fly at U.S. television.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Every pitch, I rared back, and after a while I didn't even look at the target."

From Time Magazine Archive

The citizens rared up and threw an anti-chain tax for a loss.

From Time Magazine Archive

As he got near the barn, he shied at a rock in the grass, stumbled, rared up, and raced away, tail arched high.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

Take, for example, a runner whose preparation for a race has gone perfectly and who is confident and raring to go.

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026

Bass was also who she had to be — measured, forceful and raring to defend her record, without coming off as defensive.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

While American oil producers have expressed hesitancy about rushing back to Venezuela, the companies that provide them with equipment and expertise, such as Halliburton, are raring to go.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026

"Everybody's raring to go and loving playing for England."

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2025

Usually they sat on the sidelines, chatted, and checked their reflections in the river and stuff, but when they heard we were fighting the Hunters, they were raring to go.

From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan