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The figures are likely to continue changing, which is not uncommon in the chaos after a major disaster.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
While Apple’s layoffs are uncommon and relatively small, other companies have laid off tens of thousands of employees in the last year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
The odds of these maladies rise dramatically in your 80s, but serious health challenges are not uncommon in your 70s, as I sadly saw with my late sister earlier this year.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 23, 2026
Long-term ecological studies examining the natural restoration of grasslands are uncommon because they depend on consistent monitoring over many years.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
It was not uncommon for people to turn away from the war, some to fantasy and some to vice and some to crazy gaiety.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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
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