rarely/seldom ever
idiom
Note: Some people regard rarely ever and seldom ever as incorrect, but these phrases are common in speech and in informal writing.
Examples of rarely/seldom ever in a Sentence
Ben Sills, Fortune Europe, 15 July 2024
Agnes/Agatha in WandaVision (2021) Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) rarely ever saw a day without her overbearing, babbling neighbor Agnes (Kathryn Hahn) butting into the mix.
—EW.com, 5 July 2024
Though traffic is rarely ever easy to navigate in the five boroughs, certain travel times are expected to be worse than others.
—Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 22 May 2024
This is especially noticeable on Bravo, where the network’s biggest names mainly exist in their own ecosystem of celebrity — or more accurately, Bravolebrity — which rarely ever translates to actual stardom.
—Kyndall Cunningham, Vox, 21 May 2024
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“Rarely/seldom ever.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rarely%2Fseldom%20ever. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
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