rare

Example Sentences

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However, today's most powerful magnets depend on rare earth elements that are costly, largely imported, and increasingly difficult to secure.

From Science Daily

It is very rare to find a complete crinoid, but rather the individual discs that make up the stem - these are the St Cuthbert's beads - and often resemble polo mints.

From BBC

The area is home to the world's rarest great ape, the tapanuli orangutan, just 800 of which were believed to exist in the wild before the disaster.

From Barron's

The sale of any NFL franchise marks a rare opportunity simply because of how infrequently teams in America’s most popular sport hit the market.

From The Wall Street Journal

The question really ought to be, does this make sense to have this push if the problem is vanishingly rare in the first place.

From Salon