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uncommon

If something is uncommon it does not occur or appear very often. It is uncommon for a divorced couple to forgive one another. It is uncommon to see an alligator this far north.

uncommon

not common or ordinarily encountered; unusually great in amount or remarkable in character or kind uncommon birds frost and floods are uncommon during these months doing an uncommon amount of business an uncommon liking for money he owed his greatest debt to his mother's uncommon character and ability (= rare) marked by an uncommon quality; especially superlative or extreme of its kind what is so rare as a day in June — J.R.Lowell a rare skill an uncommon sense of humor she was kind to an uncommon degree

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Simple sentences

A six-figure income is not uncommon for physicians.
Such a case is not uncommon today.
Cholera is uncommon in Japan.
It's not uncommon for people to give fake personal information when registering to use websites.
It's not uncommon for students to not study until the night before a test.
Multiple-choice tests are not uncommon.
This is an uncommon word.
That's not uncommon.
It is not all that uncommon at any rate.
It's not all that uncommon.
It's not at all uncommon.
This isn't so uncommon.

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I think it's just a common cold, but it's. it's uncommon in that it's so bad, it's. I have.
My dear, we can't all be uncommon.
It is, to say the least, most uncommon.
What a very uncommon name!
She was the most uncommon.
Such cases are not uncommon.
I grant you that it's uncommon.
So long as it is uncommon.
History need not say that the burning of Rome was good but it must say that it was colossal, uncommon.
Our contract, marriage by proxy, is not an uncommon way to get a wife in the jungle.
Only you are uncommon.
This sort of situation is not uncommon, you know.
Susie has her girlish secrets, but in her heart of hearts, I imagine she fancies you in an uncommon way.
It's not uncommon.
It suggests that Metford's trip to an out-of-the way place like Sunset View.. Was a singularly sinister and most uncommon expedition.
It's very uncommon and very interesting.
Oh, it's not very uncommon for a woman traveling alone to carry a revolver.
Ma'am, you're uncommon gracious.
It's not so uncommon in our class. For national interests, for dynastic reasons, for.
This is not uncommon.
I know. It's not an uncommon fear.
Being madly in love with a pretty woman is no uncommon madness.
Uncommon, too. - Oh, I imagine so.
Vulcan merchants are not uncommon, captain.
I.find her most uncommon, Mr. Spock.
You are uncommon workmen.
Strangers are uncommon in our land.
That's why when we were summoned by this event we answered in the same way with a common feeling of acknowledgement facing those so uncommon virtues, I say, which are honesty, intelligence and generosity.
And what's more, an uncommon one.
A most uncommon spy.
He is an uncommon individual, a savage who escapes the rules of society and congeniality.
It's not uncommon in cases like this.
Tumours of the testicles in dogs aren't uncommon.
Yes, you see, he does have a touch of it. It's not uncommon in this breed.

News and current affairs

That is most likely if genes from the crop confer a selective advantage on the recipient, an occurrence that is uncommon with gene-splicing, where most often the added gene places the recipient at a natural di sadvantage.
It is not uncommon for one sister to wear a headscarf while another does not, or a mother to wear a headscarf while her daughters do not.
The result is that it is not uncommon for a bright, productive young professor in America to earn as much, if not more, than older and less productive colleagues.
During the 1970s, two international studies demonstrated that US psychiatrists diagnosed about twice as many patients as having schizophrenia as psychiatrists in other countries, where psychoanalytic training was relatively uncommon.
So what we celebrate in these tragic heroes are people much like us, but with an uncommon talent and capacity to lend historical resonance to their destiny.
Research errors in economics are not uncommon, but they are usually caught at an early stage, as happened once to me in a prepublication draft.
For example, among the Luhya in Western Kenya, it is not uncommon for Muslims to slaughter animals during funerals, even though, strictly speaking, there is no such provision in Islam.
Such threats to health and the environment are not uncommon in China.
The most notable example is the impact of Gleevec (imatinib mesylate) on outcomes for children with an uncommon subtype of leukemia - Philadelphia chromosome-positive ALL.
Their journey was not uncommon, nor was it discouraged.
It is not uncommon for pilgrims from, say, India or Indonesia to adopt strict, conservative tenets after their return from Mecca.
The paths differ between countries, setbacks are not uncommon, and it can take decades, but the leap can occur when the circumstances are ripe - as in Tunisia.

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