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Discover LudwigThe expression "the less known" is correct and can be used in written English.
It typically refers to something that is not well-known or widely known and can be used to provide contrast from something that is more popular or widely known. For example, "The less known hiking trails in the area are preferable for those seeking a more tranquil experience."
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But lost works of art are much more convenient, and the less known about them the better.
An orchestra festival can aspire to cast new light on a particular composer or period, dust off the familiar and uncover the less known.
It was not the familiar duet often called the "Corsaire Pas de Deux," but the less known, although equally brilliant, "Pas de Slave," from this extravaganza about love, slavery and piracy.
The three other moles were the notorious Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen, of course, and the less known, pathetic Edward Lee Howard, a trainee to whom C.I.A. bosses inexplicably revealed the identity of the agency's Russian spies before he flunked a polygraph exam and washed out with a grudge.
Some of the less known, and more remarkable, stories here involve the black workers on the Railroad, such as Arnold Gragston, who, while remaining a slave, ferried hundreds of runaways across the Ohio River until 1863, when he became his own last passenger.
Mazzetti also uncorks the less known, but in some ways wilder, story of Dewey Clarridge, a former C.I.A. operative from Iran-contra days, whose antics in Afghanistan stirred tribal strife.Still more bizarre is Michele Ballarin, a Virginia socialite who finagled a contract to finance Sufi militias in Somalia.
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Two books: one little known and the other less known.
Compare Johnson's season with that of the far less known Paco Rodriguez of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
The genus is less known among the phylum Actinobateria, but has good bioactivity and energy value.
In the bishop's case, the trauma is less known.
Another possible extension of this study would involve the examination of less known similarity metrics.
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