And yet, each member of this uncommon pair is touchingly tender with the other.
The uncommon wines paired beautifully with the snow peas dressed in lemon.
It is not uncommon for pairs skaters to have an artistically stressed relationship, and as Mr. Marcotte put it, a coach can sometimes be more of a marriage counselor.
For dessert there was an elegant French take on S'mores, with guacamole sorbet beside it (say what?), and a caramel soufflé of uncommon excellence, paired with super-salty fleur de sel ice cream and grapefruit — acid to work the angle between the two.
Mate switching between broods is uncommon, with pairs staying together over several years.
It's not uncommon for pairs of consonants to be pronounced so that one is silent - and so it figuratively "piggybacks" on the sound of the other.
It is not uncommon for a pair to perform an antiphonal duet.
This spring the photographer Dominick Tyler is publishing Uncommon Ground, which pairs 100 place words with 100 photographs of the phenomena to which the words refer, from arête ("a sharp-edged mountain ridge, often between two glacier-carved corries") to zawn (a Cornish term for a "wave-smashed chasm in a cliff").
Although adult male-mother pairing is uncommon for cetaceans, it has been observed in killer whales (Orcinus orca) and pilot whales (Globicephala melas) [35], [36].
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So do many others lucky enough to have tasted these fortified dessert wines, properly named muscat and tokay, a pair of uncommon elixirs made only near this dozy old town along the Murray River, northeast of Melbourne and southwest of Sydney.
