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Although such events are extremely uncommon within an individual galaxy, astronomers monitor millions of galaxies in an effort to find them.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026

While Russia is still sticking with Gerasimov, it isn’t that uncommon for countries to change military commanders in the middle of a war.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

But the practice of switching clocks twice a year is uncommon elsewhere across the world, according to the Pew Research Center.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

Receiving an inheritance in your 80s from someone other than a spouse is relatively uncommon.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026

Stack collapses weren’t that uncommon, and if the scaffold supports buckled at the wrong angle, the domino effect could bring down four or five of the neighboring stacks too.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

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 Stockton, Frank Richard

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 Tieck, Ludwig