rarely
adverb
not often
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Rarely and not often
few and far between
not happening very often or not existing in many places
once or twice
a few times, but not very often
once in a blue moon
very rarely
vocal fry
a speech habit in which a speaker lowers their voice at the end of a sentence
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dray
a type of cart pulled by a horse and used in the past for carrying barrels of beer
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conflict mineral
a mineral which is mined in a place where there is armed conflict, and sold to help pay for weapons
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