uncommon

Outside of the movies, shark bounties are uncommon these days.

From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026

This isn’t uncommon with closed-end funds, including those that own physical gold or silver.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Because colorectal cancer remains uncommon in younger patients, these symptoms may not immediately raise suspicion and can sometimes be overlooked.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

Vamos said disputes over warrants were not uncommon - but if the police lost on a technical error, they could still sometimes keep what they had obtained in a search.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

It wasn’t uncommon for teams to move a warm body—a JV sophomore—up for the match.

From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss

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