noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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remain
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Rewarding as growth is for the companies that achieve it, it remains a rarity .
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Like their counterparts in classical music and rock such female jazz artists remain rarities .
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Female war artists, however, remained and remain a rarity .
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Although the United States boasts some twenty-five million hunters, game has remained a rarity in most homes.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The Go-Gos' latest album is packed with live versions, B-sides, and other rarities.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Although once a rarity , the alto flute is now frequently found in modern orchestras.
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Among wild creatures rarity is a relative condition, not always determined on the basis of actual numbers.
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And he was that greater rarity , a Moses without political ambition.
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Breadwinner wives who are the couple's sole earners are a rarity , wives are typically joint but secondary earners.
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Moreover, stage performances of opera had been a rarity during the war.
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That left him with one explanation for the rarity of polygamy in sparrows: The senior wives do not stand for it.
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That sheep dip is singularly disagreeable to a golden eagle is one reason for its rarity .
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This disease although now a rarity , does warrant a brief description.