rare event
collocation in Englishmeaningsofrareandevent
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rare
adjective
uk/reər/us/rer/
not common or frequent; ...
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event
noun[C]
uk/ɪˈvent/us/ɪˈvent/
anything that happens, especially something important ...
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(Definition ofrareandeventfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This is, for example, the case in domains where experts find it impossible to imagine 100 occurrences of arareevent.
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Thirdly, although the emergence of a humanoid-like intelligence is arareevent, it is unlikely to be unique.
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In other words, if the emergence of life is arareevent, then life forms with different handedness probably did not coexist.
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The absolute number of polymers may be critical if a furtherrareeventor events are required to generate bona-fide lifeforms.
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Accordingly, pulsation should be arareeventin late pregnancy, whereas the small vascular dimensions in early pregnancy predispose to pulsation.
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However, for most persons it is a veryrareeventwithout a discernible pattern of prior risk behavior or subsequent continuation.
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Therefore, the formation of a blob, which is the result of plasma turbulent motion, should be considered as a relativelyrareevent.
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If the population lacks recombination, that class can only be recovered through therareeventof a back-mutation.
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As in the case of separation, capture depends on a statisticallyrareevent.
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Thus, we are confident that our estimates do not suffer from arareeventbias.
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Mosaics then do not represent new origins of triploidy, which remains arareevent.
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Some non-parabolic trajectories are caused by the relativelyrareeventof particles colliding.
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The latter is an extremelyrareeventoccurring typically around the time of parturition.
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The low prevalences of infection could also be due to low parasite pressure, simply making contact between miracidia and snails arareevent.
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The important conceptual message here is that separation or unbinding is determined by a statisticallyrareevent.
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This is partly because the tree species have not become adapted to such arareevent.
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That is, is fly visitation truly arareevent, or is relying on catching pollinaria-bearing individuals a poor measure of a more common event?
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The refractory period of the spiking mechanisms then combines to make this a relativelyrareevent.
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Full evaluation is a veryrareeventthat takes place mostly when loading a spreadsheet from file.
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