uncommon
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So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
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| —adj | |
| 1. | outside or beyond normal experience, conditions, etc; unusual |
| 2. | in excess of what is normal: an uncommon liking for honey |
| —adv | |
| 3. | an archaic word for uncommonly |
| un'commonness | |
| —n | |
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Example sentences
His job is to range around the country and the world and find exotic fruits, or uncommon varieties of common fruits.
It is not so uncommon to see acutely ill patients with life-threatening sepsis from colitis and need for urgent colectomy.
Such digital detective work was not uncommon after the attacks.
It is no uncommon thing even today to find a singer with a repertory of two hundred or more songs.
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