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On Tuesday, Justice Minister Naomi Long described the court's decision to overturn the Prison Service's refusal and directly order Anderson's release as "extremely rare"

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

Such a view misunderstands what the court is up to in those rare instances when it has stood up to the president.

From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2026

This a rare consensus among Democratic, Republican and independent voters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

The Mifflin County Coroner’s Office on Tuesday said an 18-year-old resident died due to a rare neurological complication from measles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

It was red, which made it twice as rare.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

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

JapanLA was auctioning the rarest Sonny Angels for hundreds of dollars, and that started bothering some fans of the fat little collectibles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 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

The Bundibugyo strain is the rarest of the four known Ebola virus species, scientists say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Davies said the now "bleak" area was "far more" than a spot with a "beautiful view" out to sea and had been home to the island's "rarest and most valuable habitats".

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

Also, because it came not from Africa, but from some far Eastern land, it was the rarest, and most terrible, somehow.

From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks

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

"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

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

People screamed and ran, horses and mules screeched and rared.

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 Exxon Mobil balked at the idea of returning to a country that twice nationalized its assets, the oil-field service firms that work with national oil companies and Texas wildcatters alike are raring to go.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

With England six days away from taking on France in their opening Group D game at Euro 2025, Sarina Wiegman's "special player" is fit and raring to go.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2025

I’d barely closed my eyes good when T.R. went to growling and the mules commenced raring up and squealing.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns