uncommonly

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Recent Examples of uncommonly Fixes for what are believed to be uncommonly severe vulnerabilities are scheduled to drop in a little more than 12 hours for PHP, a programming language that powers websites and Web applications everywhere. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 21 Oct. 2026 Neither starter excelled on a tense, uncommonly hot October night in downtown San Diego. — ABC News, 7 Oct. 2026 This uncommonly thoughtful Jason Statham vehicle is based on a real 1971 heist. — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Sep. 2026 Some have already noted the uncommonly high demand for PV5 campers and alluded to early plans to bring the PV7 into the fold. — New Atlas, 2 Sep. 2026 Emde wandered ahead while King lagged behind at her usual tempo, which is uncommonly slow but projects incongruous urgency. — Laura Preston, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2026 Compared with federal law and that of other states, New York has uncommonly strong protections for defendants facing multiple prosecutions. — Michael R. Sisak, Chicago Tribune, 17 Aug. 2026 Though uncommonly immune to his charms, Ginger does accept Lee’s help on a case. — Denise Petski, Deadline, 12 Aug. 2026 But the environment was uncommonly set up for success, at least relative to the rest of the league. — Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for uncommonly
Adverb
  • How Cube Steak Is Used and Cooked Cube steak is extremely versatile.
    — Natalia Vela, Southern Living, 3 Nov. 2026
  • California has gotten extremely soft on accountability with youth.
    — Richard Ramos, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2026
Adverb
  • The brothers returned to Kansas City’s T-Mobile Center on Tuesday, a little more than a year since their last concert there and on a very big election night for the country.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 4 Nov. 2026
  • On November 2, robot dogs – and other kinds of machines built for locomotion of some kind – took part in the very first World Robot Mount Taishan Climbing Competition in Tai'an, in China's Shandong province.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Nov. 2026
Adverb
  • Fortunately for the script, other British and Hessian reënactors had arrived via freeway and the incredibly vast Orchard Beach parking lot.
    — Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Humanity is both incredibly advanced and evolved and deeply stunted.
    — Fiona Sinclair Scott, CNN Money, 2 Nov. 2026
Adverb
  • After a dance team audition goes terribly wrong, a group of girls at a Catholic high school start experiencing mysterious visions.
    — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 26 Oct. 2026
  • That’s not terribly surprising given the two teams have clashed multiple times over the past 25 years of Xbox.
    — Tom Warren, The Verge, 20 Oct. 2026
Adverb
  • Elsewhere in the barn, there’s a pair of isolated rooms for donkeys with highly infectious diseases like salmonella or strangles.
    — Brayden Garcia October 28, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Oct. 2026
  • The Buffaloes basically have to win out to make a bowl game, and with games against Houston, Cincinnati, and UCF to end the season, that looks highly unlikely.
    — Austin Perry OutKick, FOXNews.com, 28 Oct. 2026
Adverb
  • Republicans not only lost the House, but watched as their hope of keeping a Senate majority slipped away, too — a blue tsunami that was quickly interpreted as a rebuke of the president and his agenda.
    — David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 4 Nov. 2026
  • As California’s Latino population grew and their political power eventually did too, the days when such a victory would have been an inspiring surprise are long gone.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2026
Adverb
  • The Rolling Stones, down to two original members, have released their 25th studio album, Foreign Tongues, and most of it is pretty damned good.
    — David Harris, SPIN, 6 July 2026
  • But Cleveland State was, in fact, a damned good basketball team, as were most of the double-digit seed winners in NCAA Tournament history.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 18 Mar. 2026
Adverb
  • Its sweet, soft, umami-rich profile can shift the taste of a recipe, so Czerwony suggests using about half the usual amount of garlic and adjusting from there.
    — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 3 Nov. 2026
  • But when the lines between sincerity and cynicism are so blurred, does intention even matter?
    — Andrew Ryce, Pitchfork, 3 Nov. 2026

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“Uncommonly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncommonly. Accessed 5 Nov. 2026.

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