2020年11月17日 · The chart suggests that rarest (red line) and rarer (yellow line) have been more popular (not popularer) forms than most rare (blue line) and more rare (green line) for at least 150 years. Nevertheless, given their consistent occurrence in published works over so many years, I wouldn't argue that any of the four forms is wrong.

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2012年5月12日 · The O.P. could perhaps improve the question – red cars aren't particularly rare or hard to find. Maybe something like a red Lamborghini would be more like "the birdwatcher's spatuletail."

2019年1月29日 · First of all, common is something everyday or ordinary. However, if you want a word that's between rare and common on a frequency scale, I suggest occasional:

2011年4月14日 · My guess for the term starting with women is the economical independence that men have been granted throughout history. The strength of polygyny over the rarer polyandry also implies that the death of a wife wouldn't have altered a man's married state due to his having more than one. The need for a male counterpart just wasn't as great.

To show that "X et al's paper" is indeed much rarer than "the paper by X et al", consider this Ngram. Even with the specific names Anderson and Wang substituted for X, "et al's paper" is considerably rarer than *paper by X et al".

2017年4月10日 · Subparagraph is rarer still. The sequence is almost always the same. Here's a list of how they're used in LaTeX. I chose this link because it includes a bit of discussion about what type of documents use which divisions. I've seen subsubsubsection used in all seriousness, but that's not standard.

2016年5月2日 · Most people are familiar with "regurgitate" as a fancy synonym for "throw up," but far fewer know of its rarer antonym "ingurgitate." It's a word as likely to turn up in a spelling bee as in a conversation, but it does see occasional use, both literal (as in "ingurgitating red wine") and figurative (as in "ingurgitating artwork").

You can get or wrap your head, mind, or arms around problems (often unsuccessfully): . The oldest of these expressions appears to be to “get one’s head around” something, a usage that the Oxford English Dictionary has been tracking since the 1920s.

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