beyond (all) recognition
idiom
: to such a degree as to look completely different and be unrecognizable
The renovations changed the house beyond (all) recognition.
Examples of beyond (all) recognition in a Sentence
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Only nine of them were identifiable, with the others burned beyond recognition.
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Yvonne Mooka, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2024
New World Order is a phrase that has entered the lexicon and depicts a world transformed beyond recognition.
—Tracey Follows, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
In the last 30 years, the dining landscape on both sides of the pond has transformed beyond all recognition.
—Clare Finney, Vogue, 3 Apr. 2024
Videos showed some bodies that were damaged beyond recognition.
—Mikhail Klimentov, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2024
Others recall the images: Bikes mangled beyond recognition.
—The Arizona Republic, 16 Mar. 2024
The sport had been disfigured beyond recognition before Harbaugh’s heel turn, a downward spiral accelerated by the approach of one tsunami and then another – NIL and the transfer portal – and the NCAA’s response of diving behind the nearest potted plant.
—Gregg Doyel, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Jan. 2024
But then, in Moyn’s account, a group of Cold War liberals reconceived liberalism beyond recognition.
—Helena Rosenblatt, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
What a horrible, no-good, very bad, infuriating way to ruin Stannis as a character and to twist the events of these stories beyond recognition in such a grotesque manner.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 9 Feb. 2024
Yvonne Mooka, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2024
New World Order is a phrase that has entered the lexicon and depicts a world transformed beyond recognition.
—Tracey Follows, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
In the last 30 years, the dining landscape on both sides of the pond has transformed beyond all recognition.
—Clare Finney, Vogue, 3 Apr. 2024
Videos showed some bodies that were damaged beyond recognition.
—Mikhail Klimentov, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2024
Others recall the images: Bikes mangled beyond recognition.
—The Arizona Republic, 16 Mar. 2024
The sport had been disfigured beyond recognition before Harbaugh’s heel turn, a downward spiral accelerated by the approach of one tsunami and then another – NIL and the transfer portal – and the NCAA’s response of diving behind the nearest potted plant.
—Gregg Doyel, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Jan. 2024
But then, in Moyn’s account, a group of Cold War liberals reconceived liberalism beyond recognition.
—Helena Rosenblatt, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
What a horrible, no-good, very bad, infuriating way to ruin Stannis as a character and to twist the events of these stories beyond recognition in such a grotesque manner.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 9 Feb. 2024
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