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It’s not uncommon for a seller and buyer to agree on a price and then hope the appraisal is as high as possible.
POLITICS REPORT: FORGED FOOTNOTE 15SCOTT LEWIS AND ANDREW KEATTSSEPTEMBER 12, 2020VOICE OF SAN DIEGO
Eric Topol, a cardiologist and clinical-trials expert at the Scripps Research Translational Institute in San Diego, said such pauses in large studies are “not uncommon at all.”
SOME SCIENTISTS DOWNPLAY SIGNIFICANCE OF ASTRAZENECA’S COVID-19 VACCINE TRIAL HALTCLAIRE ZILLMAN, REPORTERSEPTEMBER 9, 2020FORTUNE
It’s not uncommon to feel like you’re letting your fitness tracker down when you don’t hit your goals.
AMAZON’S NEW FITNESS TRACKER LISTENS TO YOUR VOICE TO FIGURE OUT YOUR MOODSTAN HORACZEKSEPTEMBER 2, 2020POPULAR-SCIENCE
Recombinetics has since insisted that the leftover plasmid DNA was likely harmless and stressed that this sort of genetic slipup is not uncommon.
BIOTECHNOLOGY COULD CHANGE THE CATTLE INDUSTRY. WILL IT SUCCEED?DYLLAN FURNESSAUGUST 16, 2020SINGULARITY HUB 
International cricket leagues are cropping up from Canada to Nepal, and it’s not uncommon for players to represent seven different teams in a single year.
GUESS WHO’S CHEERING FOR BREXIT? SOUTH AFRICAN CRICKETCHARU KASTURIAUGUST 12, 2020OZY
Such political rallies are uncommon in Belarus, but this was no one-off event.
COULD SHE UPSET BELARUS’ DICTATOR?PALLABI MUNSIAUGUST 5, 2020OZY
On most days at the Hard Rock Stadium testing site, it is not uncommon for testing to temporarily pause due to lightning in the area or because a car waiting in line breaks down due to mechanical issues.
WHICH CITIES HAVE THE BIGGEST RACIAL GAPS IN COVID-19 TESTING ACCESS?SOO RIN KIMJULY 22, 2020FIVETHIRTYEIGHT
Although it’s not uncommon for San Diego to share streetlight camera footage with other agencies, it’s also not immediately clear in this case that the footage was given to federal authorities.
POLICE USED SMART STREETLIGHT FOOTAGE TO INVESTIGATE PROTESTERSJESSE MARXJUNE 29, 2020VOICE OF SAN DIEGO
The county has aided some assisted living facilities with testing, in part because it’s uncommon for these facilities to employ licensed nurses, who are better equipped to perform testing.
COVID-19 TESTING PLANS LEAVE OUT ASSISTED LIVING FACILITIESJARED WHITLOCKJUNE 26, 2020VOICE OF SAN DIEGO
It is of course not uncommon for lawyers to change their position based on who’s employing them.
CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? (EP. 406)STEPHEN J. DUBNERFEBRUARY 20, 2020FREAKONOMICS
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WORDS RELATED TO UNCOMMON

  • at cutting edge
  • atypical
  • avant-garde
  • breaking new ground
  • contemporary
  • different
  • far cry
  • fresh
  • funky
  • innovative
  • just out
  • modernistic
  • neoteric
  • new-fashioned
  • newfangled
  • now
  • odd
  • offbeat
  • peculiar
  • rare
  • recent
  • singular
  • strange
  • uncommon
  • unfamiliar
  • unique
  • unusual
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