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It’s not uncommon for people to choose per-capita basis when none of their children have started families of their own yet.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

These days, it’s not uncommon for a patient to ask me whether they should get a whole-body MRI scan to look for problems that traditional tests might miss.

From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026

“This is a significant and relatively uncommon setback, although not necessarily terminal,” analyst Tanushree Jain says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

That long-term reduction may help explain why fossils of the species are relatively uncommon and why the cats may have become increasingly vulnerable to extinction.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026

Because these names were long, and because they used uncommon letters and combinations like F and MB, they stood out.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

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