rare
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Later that year, the family fled to New York and settled in Manhattan, where Maria Gitter served as a psychotherapist at the Adlerian Clinic and Milo Gitter became a wholesale dealer in rare stamps.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
Josh pals around with the club’s impossibly wealthy members, serves them rare brown liquors and flies off with them to exotic locales at a moment’s notice.
From Salon • Apr. 23, 2026
Deadly encounters between humans and the animals are extremely rare.
From BBC • Apr. 23, 2026
One tanker left from New York harbor to Europe this month, an exceptionally rare occurrence, according to Denton Cinquegrana, chief oil analyst at OPIS, which is owned by Dow Jones publisher Barron’s.
From Barron's • Apr. 23, 2026
Glass objects from the Byzantine era were extremely rare.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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Workshop 5, Part 1
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