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Discover LudwigThe phrase "almost rare" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is not quite rare but is close to being so, often in contexts where rarity is a key characteristic.
Example: "The species is almost rare, with only a few sightings reported in the last decade."
Alternatives: "nearly rare" or "virtually rare".
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There were only a couple of missteps - a rack of elk arrived almost rare, not medium rare, and the braised lamb shank, though flavorful, had not achieved melt-in-your-mouth texture.
The Boston butt pork shoulder will surprise you -- it won't be falling off the bone like traditional BBQ-ed pork, but it will be succulent and spicy and smoky, almost rare; again, you will never have had a pork roast like it.
The available studies suggest several effects of PS-NP mainly on aquatic environment; however, research on the effects of nanoplastics on soil organisms are almost rare (see also [16]).
Among leaders in TB, Kambili said, "there is a lot of agreement that we have to take care of this almost rare occurrence where a new TB drug has been introduced" so that "the risk of squandering this drug is minimized".
Revolver exhibits structural diversities and considerable copy number variation through the evolution of the Triticeae, from 2 × 10 in rye to almost rare in wheat.
Queuing, as the British call it, is almost rare in China.
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But sculpture shows that might broaden our horizons, being costly and difficult to mount, are almost rarer than genuine newly discovered Michelangelos.
Dunking is almost as rare as dragons.
Chinchilla is almost as rare as Sable.
True mergers of equals are almost as rare as unicorns.
It's almost vanishingly rare for a nonfiction writer to win the Nobel.
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