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rarefied

[rair-uh-fahyd] / ˈrɛər əˌfaɪd /
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“To be quite honest, we were not forecasting that this ETF would essentially be in rarefied air within 10 days,” said Dave Mazza, chief executive of boutique asset manager Roundhill Investments.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

Their stakes are real, but the dispute comes to the court in such rarefied doctrinal form that the underlying injury almost disappears.

From Slate • Apr. 10, 2026

The privilege is pressure, pressure is a privilege and the possibility of making such rarefied history, with folks at FanGraphs giving the Dodgers 27% odds to win this World Series, is anything but automatic.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2026

Dictators may be faithless and brutal to their own people, but in the rarefied circle of fellow dictators, a kind of camaraderie flourishes.

From Salon • Mar. 14, 2026

For the first semester, I was one of three Black students in the school, and in that rarefied atmosphere I came to love my people more.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou




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