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uncommon

/ʌnˈkɒmən/ adjectif B2
  1. Rare; not readily found; unusual. · Bald eagles are an uncommon sighting in this state.
  2. Remarkable; exceptional. · The diamond was of uncommon size

Comparatif uncommoner · Superlatif uncommonest

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But he can easily become one, if he is not already; it is no uncommon thing in Italy.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 784 · C1
There, seated before a walnut table he had brought with him from Hartwell, and to which, from one of those fancies not uncommon to great people, he was particularly attached, the king, Louis XVIII., was carelessly listening to a man of fifty or fifty-two years of age, with gray hair, aristocratic bearing, and exceedingly gentlemanly attire, and meanwhile making a marginal note in a volume of Gryphius’s rather inaccurate, but much sought-after, edition of Horace—a work which was much indebted to the sagacious observations of the philosophical monarch.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 88 · C1
I was a strollin’ down, thinkin’ between ourselves how uncommon handy a four of gin hot would be, when suddenly the glint of a light caught my eye in the window of that same house.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 41 · B2
“He was an uncommon drunk sort o’ man,” he said.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 43 · B2

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