How to pronounce rare
Listen to rare in real sentences, spoken by real people, in the original YouTube videos. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“rare” in real sentences
1000+ clips in the index · 852 American · 936 British. Clips come from parliamentary and government channels under open licences.
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Those are very rare. They are very rare.
The Scottish Parliament · watch from 79:11 · hear it here
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It was one of his rare, rare, legislative defeats.
National Archives · watch from 21:02 · hear it here
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Rare is rare and it's difficult to quantify.
CDC · watch from 143:51 · hear it here
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was under a consent decree you have the rare rare um
Dept of Justice · watch from 85:16 · hear it here
Why real speech
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