as in seldom
not often
summer thunderstorms occur only rarely along the Oregon coast
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Recent Examples of rarely
Redford and Szaggars kept their relationship private over the past several decades and rarely made any public comments about their romance.
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Janelle Ash, FOXNews.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Benchmarking the unbenchmarkable Electrolyzer companies rarely publish comparative data.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2025
That body had a magical suppleness, a plasticity that was rarely seen in a dancer.
—Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2025
And yet, the company has rarely created desktop apps to go with those services.
—Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 16 Sep. 2025
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Janelle Ash, FOXNews.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Benchmarking the unbenchmarkable Electrolyzer companies rarely publish comparative data.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2025
That body had a magical suppleness, a plasticity that was rarely seen in a dancer.
—Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2025
And yet, the company has rarely created desktop apps to go with those services.
—Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 16 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rarely
seldom
Adverb
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One silent element to the transfer portal that is seldom discussed, but important to the athletes, is those pesky classes.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
9 Sep. 2025
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When an employer terminates, or is found to have terminated, an employee without cause, the contract (outside of the unionized setting) seldom entitles the employee to ger her job back.—
Dan Eaton,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Rarely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rarely. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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