rare bird
Example Sentences
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“That is a rare bird, but sometimes workers on government labor brigades decide that they are going to defect,” Mr. Peters said.
From Washington Times • Nov. 22, 2023
In the music video for the song, Cyrus is a rare bird breaking free from a cage.
From Salon • Aug. 30, 2023
It is a doubly rare bird: a surprising blow to the business bar that is rooted in an unusually rigorous application of originalism.
From Slate • Jun. 28, 2023
Some 140 years after the black-naped pheasant-pigeon was last sighted by scientists, researchers have "rediscovered" the rare bird.
From BBC • Nov. 18, 2022
He asked this as if, having had the good fortune to catch such a rare bird as myself, he was anxious to extract my opinion while I was still captive in his office.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
