as in seldom
not often
summer thunderstorms occur only rarely along the Oregon coast
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Recent Examples of rarely
The 2022 seventh-round Draft pick has rarely struggled since arriving in the big leagues in July.
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Shaun McAvoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
Deadline chief critic praised for work for showing a side of WWII rarely seen on the big screen in his review out of Cannes.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2025
But things rarely stand still in the world of a semi-professional footballer.
—Nnamdi Onyeagwara, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
Boy Smells rarely if ever goes on sale, but its cult-favorite scent, LES (with notes of cedarwood, bergamot, black currant, and peony), is discounted right this minute.
—Alanna Martine Kilkeary, Glamour, 7 Oct. 2025
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Shaun McAvoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
Deadline chief critic praised for work for showing a side of WWII rarely seen on the big screen in his review out of Cannes.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2025
But things rarely stand still in the world of a semi-professional footballer.
—Nnamdi Onyeagwara, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
Boy Smells rarely if ever goes on sale, but its cult-favorite scent, LES (with notes of cedarwood, bergamot, black currant, and peony), is discounted right this minute.
—Alanna Martine Kilkeary, Glamour, 7 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rarely
seldom
Adverb
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Linda’s daughter is never identified by name, and she is often heard but seldom seen.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
9 Oct. 2025
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Using simple yet incandescent prose, Paine renounced, repudiated and ridiculed at a clip seldom witnessed in print before or since.—
Matthew Redmond,
The Conversation,
9 Oct. 2025
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“Rarely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rarely. Accessed 12 Oct. 2025.
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