seldom
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His association with Rand was seldom highlighted during his Fed tenure, but even a casual reading of those essays exposes the Randian underpinnings — and the Randian self-contradictions — of his Fed policies.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2026
Much of its ecology is still a mystery because spiders in this group are seldom encountered in the wild.
From Science Daily • Jun. 17, 2026
As she put it: “I have seldom seen a clearer expression of legislative intent in a congressional record.”
From Slate • Jun. 11, 2026
But they’re seldom as musically on the nose as Weezer’s “Island in the Sun” in “Every Year After.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
The problem arises when a tree encounters an attacker for which evolution has left it unprepared, and seldom has a tree been more helpless against an invader than the American chestnut against Endothia parasitica.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
Vocabulary lists containing seldom
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 7–11
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