Stray
Uncommon
Uncommon adjective - Being out of the ordinary.
Stray and uncommon are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Stray" instead an adjective "Uncommon".
Nearby Word: uncommonly
Both words in one sentence
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Made of Plasticine: It's not uncommon for the basic infected to be graphically dismembered by a shotgun blast, a few stray bullets, or being bashed with a rifle butt.
Source: Video Game / Left 4 Dead - Bullets tend to go through concealment a few times before stopping, and people dying by accident due to stray bullets isn't uncommon.
Source: No Endor Holocaust -
Omniglot: It's not uncommon for his routines to stray into foreign languages.
Source: Creator / Eddie Izzard
Cite this Source
Uncommon and Stray. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 02, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/stray/uncommon
Stray & Uncommon. N.p., 2016. Web. 02 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/stray/uncommon>.
Uncommon or Stray. 2016. Accessed August 02, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/stray/uncommon.
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