rare

Marmalade was considered rare because there are only 500 harbour seals living in the river, compared with about 3,000 of the more common grey seals.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

In her tragic absence, Selena’s estate gave a rare blessing to Beyoncé for the collaboration.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

The Kansas City district has denied breaking the law, and in a letter to the government last month, it offered a narrow interpretation of deception as a rare exception.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Hung jurors do happen across criminal trials, obviously they are more rare and infrequent.

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026

However, this was one of those rare occasions when lying really was the best course of action.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown

Postpartum psychosis, characterized by losing touch with reality and experiencing paranoia, delusions or hallucinations, is far rarer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

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

From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026

"While large, tabular icebergs are relatively common in the Southern Ocean that surrounds the Antarctic Ice Sheet, Arctic ice islands are far rarer," explains Dr. Anna Crawford of the University of Stirling.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 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

I could also name some rarer animals: chinchilla, mink, crocodile, ostrich, emu, beaver, leopard.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

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

Kemp's ridleys are the rarest sea turtle in the world, and lay their eggs on only two beaches in Mexico and in Texas, USA.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

“This flower used to be one of the rarest plants in the world. A white tiger orchid. In Rusty days, a single bulb was worth more than a house.”

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld

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

Malcolm Offord said he had a procedure last week to remove his prostate and was now "clear" and "raring to go".

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

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

When his time at Yale was over, he felt raring to go.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 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

Old Rowdy thought we were going possum hunting and he was raring to go.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls