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seldom

[sel-duhm] / ˈsɛl dəm /


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In part because the court tailored its decision to Bob Jones’s exceptional facts, the IRS has seldom exercised its court-created authority to deny schools tax exemption based on discrimination.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

World affairs seldom provide easy answers, however, and developments elsewhere have threatened to undermine his efforts to bring down fuel prices before they provide any political benefit.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

Real estate has always gone in cycles, boom followed by bust, and there is no particular reason to think “this time is different,” because in finance it seldom is.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

The 82-year-old is the brains behind the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a telescope embedded in a cubic kilometer of Antarctic ice that detects neutrinos -- particles with almost no mass that seldom interact with other matter.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

The rest of us seldom leave the valley.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson


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