adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
used
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However, today such doubling is seldom used , for several reasons.
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This provision is seldom used , perhaps because reasonable employers reward such employees sufficiently well so that they do not apply for compensation.
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Mr. Robert Hughes: The Minister has said that the sanctions are seldom used .
■ VERB
come
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Urban properties seldom come with an endowment, and opportunities for income-generation are generally limited by restrictions of space.
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Small strokes of frontal lobe seldom come to the attention of neurologists.
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Our boy friends seldom came to the house.
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But the sun seldom came sideways, preferring instead to strike straight down from above.
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She seldom came home after school, but went to friends.
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But for refugee children these social conventions seldom came into play.
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But social reforms and advances in social provision seldom come through mass demand.
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Excess stock of hard-to-sell cars will sometimes be cleared out virtually at cost, but diesels seldom come into this category.
do
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Most people have been exposed to it, but if your-immune system is intact the protozoa will seldom do harm.
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Mother seldom did this-it was my sisters' work.
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But seldom do these companies follow up on the true costs of counterproductive policies and decisions.
feel
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Mr Norrie rarely goes out because he seldom feels well.
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She seldom feels unwell, and has not visited the doctor or taken a day off in more than ten years.
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She had seldom felt so old or so tired or so wretched.
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I have seldom felt the need to recognise these as distinct from rise-fall and fall-rise respectively.
find
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We seldom find any non-white faces.
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The type of mind needed in cryptologic work, it argued, is seldom found in the Army.
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The overriding importance of death and disease in the seventeenth century have seldom found such a chronicler.
get
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But I have seldom got very close to these quick, nervous birds.
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A really fine debut album by a local jazz player who seldom gets any ink.
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Even when caught by the coastguard or the Immigration and Naturalisation Service they seldom get sent back.
go
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He seldom went to bed before midnight, and then often read the plays of Corneille till 2 a.m.
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He infringed the Islannc code by drinking alcohol, eating pork, and seldom going to mosque.
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We did not often have other boys to stay, almost never a girl, and we seldom went away on visits.
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Since most students seldom go to class, there is also little intellectual exchange.
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Scorpions seldom go out of their way to attack people and accidents usually happen when scorpions are trodden on.
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Counselors seldom went into town in the evenings or on their days off.
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So I seldom went home on holidays.
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Against ... he doesn't have much to do with the horses. Seldom goes racing.
hear
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Such abuses, reported, however, are seldom heard beyond the walls of state agencies-for two reasons.
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I loved the simple harmonic melodies, and wondered why I seldom hear anything as good on the radio.
leave
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Its knowledge of its home range, however, is not restricted to these tracks, even though it seldom leaves them.
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Because she seldom left home, her sisters made it a habit to look after her.
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She usually builds on the shores of an estuary and there she sits devotedly, seldom leaving the nest.
make
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Men in love may offer a great deal but they seldom make such a full commitment.
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But running mates seldom make much difference on Election Day.
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Small wonder, perhaps, that claims are seldom made by people who enjoy executive status.
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But in the mutable world of the modern organization, major decisions are seldom made solely on the basis of hard facts.
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But while cynics often serve as acute commentators, they seldom make for effective organizational leaders.
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Athletes will seldom make fools of themselves for the press.
see
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Taking a Sunday evening stroll was a regular family pastime, an enjoyable occasion that is unfortunately seldom seen today.
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But we seldom see ourselves as others see us.
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There was a fluency and an edification and upbuilding such as I have seldom seen .
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He has too often been seen snarling and too seldom seen smiling.
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Lone wolves are seldom seen in threes.
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Karen had seldom seen him so angry.
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A new home for the museum exhibits that are seldom seen .
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Because his shoulders are narrow, he never works in his shirt sleeves, and is seldom seen publicly in casual clothes.
seem
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Partnership where there is no consensus seldom seems to work.
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It seldom seemed vital for the individual himself.
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Consequently the chants seldom seem banal or trivial, in spite of being repeated over and over again.
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And there were a million pots in her kitchen, which she seemed seldom to use, except tonight in his honor.
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Within an office environment where there seldom seems to be time to learn new software this approach may find a considerable following.
speak
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He spoke seldom , but he was never impatient with her, always kind, a companionable father figure.
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I had the decency to tell her often that I loved her; she smiled weakly, but seldom spoke .
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He seldom spoke about himself but he had wanted suddenly to tell her what his own plans were.
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But no one really knew, since he seldom spoke , except in monosyllables, and ignored most greetings.
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This is because Our Lady seldom spoke .
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He planted trees, raised cattle, married, and had seven children, and seldom spoke a harsh word.
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She seldom spoke , but Paul had now and again addressed a kindly remark to her, to which she responded briefly.
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In such circumstances jokes were usually omitted and the President would listen intently but seldom speak .
use
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The kinds of attack perpetrated by women seldom use deadly force.
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Many lawyers who specialize in estate planning say they are aware of the filing procedure but seldom use it.
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We often justify the fact that routinely-collected information is seldom used by saying that it is unreliable.
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His television was borrowed, and seldom used , and he did not bother much about any other amenities.
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It was admitted that this section worried the Fair Employment Commission, even though it was seldom used by employers.
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Motion picture video is seldom used due to storage and performance limitations.
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The only other recreational drug used in this way is nicotine, which is also seldom used for outright intoxication.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Seldom have I read a book with such a powerful message.
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Anna seldom eats at home.
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Council meetings are seldom longer than an hour.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And the evening will include a session with rare and seldom heard recordings by the star.
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But no one really knew, since he seldom spoke, except in monosyllables, and ignored most greetings.
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He seldom wasted time wondering why people wanted other people dead.
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He has too often been seen snarling and too seldom seen smiling.