rare exception

collocation in English

meaningsofrareandexception

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rare
adjective
uk
/reər/us
/rer/
not common or frequent; ...
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exception
noun[C or U]
uk
/ɪkˈsep.ʃən/us
/ɪkˈsep.ʃən/
someone or something that is not included in a rule, group, or list or that does not behave in the ...
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(Definition ofrareandexceptionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofrare exception

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There is arareexceptionto this exclusion of women.
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However, today is arareexception.
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I think that this solution is arareexception.
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Confrontation with extremely dangerous or even life-threatening situations is likely to have been part of everyday life rather than arareexception.
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Unfortunately, it is not usual, with therareexception,3 to discuss in detail patients falling in these categories in the series published to date.
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Each lesion lasted for 60 s, with therareexceptionof less time if the catheter moved during the application of energy.
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Withrareexception(in all but 3 of the 280 measurements), pitch peak occurred within a close proximity to the stressed syllable.
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Arareexceptionis right towards the end, where a debate on gender is not only introduced but tantalisingly briefly entertained.
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Arareexceptionis the attempt to introduce into the clinic measures of reaction time and attention to evaluate function in children diagnosed with attention-deficit disorder.
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The use of that power of dispensation ought to be arareexception.
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Withrareexception, universities report more and more students seeking some help.
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We hope that that form of contract will become arareexceptionin our finances.
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Exemption is the rule and therareexceptionhas to be called up.
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Sadly, however, in its settlement, it is still arareexception.
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However, such complimentary assessments were therareexception.
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Harmonic fragment scales form arareexceptionto this issue.
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Shigeharu was arareexceptionto this rule.
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You do not find men with £50,000 or £100,000 do these things except by way ofrareexception.
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When can we expect that situation to end, or at least to be an extremelyrareexception?
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Nevertheless, it should be acknowledged that this book is arareexceptionby mentioning the nonlinear force formulation while most of similar books are not mentioning this fact at all.
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Over the country as a whole it is arareexceptionfor a city to employ a team of traffic engineers.
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That was absurd in a country in which large-scale, long-term investment by private industry is therareexception, not the regular rule.
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Players drafted in the first 20 picks have been therareexceptionrather than the rule.
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Arareexceptionis a case of renal tubular acidosis purportedly caused by expired tetracycline.
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