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Festival producer Dougie Brown said it was rare to lose a headliner but Razorlight had been asked to step up to the slot.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

When Fatima Zahra heard the rumour of a rare border opening between Morocco and Spain, she joined thousands in rushing to attempt a perilous journey into the Ceuta enclave by land or sea.

From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026

An earnings miss is rare for ExxonMobil, which last disappointed investors’ expectations of adjusted per-share earnings more than two years ago, when it reported first-quarter results in April 2024.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026

Although dissents aren’t rare, Fed chairmen have often sought to project leadership by soliciting consensus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

There were few enough like them, rare birds among a small people.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

So-called hallucinations, one of the features of all AI models so far, are becoming rarer.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026

Perhaps, with new technologies and methods of analysis, they can become even rarer, enabling economics to shed the image of a dismal science.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

Live jazz is rare and getting rarer in Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

ACT rainforest manager Ian Dow said the pockets that remained were globally important and even rarer than their tropical equivalents such as the Amazon.

From BBC ● May 21, 2026

It’s even rarer in females, and superrare in kids.

From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty

Until now, astronomers had mostly detected only the brightest and rarest ancient quasars, leaving too few examples to study the early quasar population as a whole.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026

Double-figure scoring at a World Cup is one of football's rarest feats.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

Nevertheless, Haaland has emerged as the rarest sort of superstar: the one who can single-handedly spark a Cinderella run.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

A conservation charity is encouraging residents to help restore vital habitats in Surrey to create a "haven" for some of the UK's rarest insects.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

Above the shoulders of his carriers Ignatius barked directions as if he were supervising the loading of the rarest and most precious of cargoes.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

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

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

Rees-Zammit said: "Everyone's locked in on what's next. Japan will be a tough game, but everyone is raring to go and is buying in 100%. We're all ready."

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2025

The Harris campaign ended the night raring to debate again.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2024

By the time he’s out of the shower, Mr. Stevens has loaded the car, and Daniel’s two sisters are raring to go.

From "Every Day" by David Levithan