unexampled
adjective
un·ex·am·pled
ˌən-ig-ˈzam-pəld 
: having no example or parallel : unprecedented
his ardent attachment and … unexampled passion—
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her performance in the Olympics was an unexampled display of athletic prowess
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The United States commenced their existence under circumstances wholly novel and unexampled in the history of nations.
—Liz Tracey, JSTOR Daily, 19 Apr. 2024
The telecom firms supported Pai’s initiative with a campaign of unexampled dishonesty.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
The Progressives pushed for the Seventeenth Amendment, providing for the popular election of senators, at a moment of unexampled corruption in the chamber.
—Chris Lehmann, The New Republic, 10 Feb. 2022
The episode is breathtaking in its audacity and poetry, an unexampled work of pure special-effects ballet.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022
These were posts, by the way, in which Kelly showed no compunction about advancing immigration policies of unexampled cruelty.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2020
In the broadest terms, what’s at issue are the strategy and tactics of organized labor at a time when unions are reckoning with a long slide in their membership and facing unexampled hostility from the federal government and many state governments.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2019
But a war in which most of the enemy is considered beyond any possible surrender or political solution, and must be killed to the last man, is an extraordinary thing, unexampled in American history since the Indian Wars.
—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2017
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Liz Tracey, JSTOR Daily, 19 Apr. 2024
The telecom firms supported Pai’s initiative with a campaign of unexampled dishonesty.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
The Progressives pushed for the Seventeenth Amendment, providing for the popular election of senators, at a moment of unexampled corruption in the chamber.
—Chris Lehmann, The New Republic, 10 Feb. 2022
The episode is breathtaking in its audacity and poetry, an unexampled work of pure special-effects ballet.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022
These were posts, by the way, in which Kelly showed no compunction about advancing immigration policies of unexampled cruelty.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2020
In the broadest terms, what’s at issue are the strategy and tactics of organized labor at a time when unions are reckoning with a long slide in their membership and facing unexampled hostility from the federal government and many state governments.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2019
But a war in which most of the enemy is considered beyond any possible surrender or political solution, and must be killed to the last man, is an extraordinary thing, unexampled in American history since the Indian Wars.
—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2017
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unexampled
adjective
un·ex·am·pled
ˌən-ig-ˈzam-pəld
: having no example or match : unprecedented
an unexampled record of achievement
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