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In the period that followed, a majority of party members pushed for a unitary leadership model, arguing that the existing arrangement hindered the party’s effectiveness.—Andrew Pereira, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Apr. 2026 The unitary variant carries a 200-pound high-explosive warhead.—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 13 Apr. 2026 This question has a beautiful formulation called the unitary synthesis problem.—Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 17 Feb. 2026 Introducing the unitary executive theory Ronald Reagan’s administration is often described as the first to use the unitary executive theory to expand power.—Mikayla Bunnell, Hartford Courant, 3 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for unitary
: having the character of a single thing that is a constituent of a whole
specifically: of, relating to, or being a business with subsidiaries in other states or nations that has its state income tax figured by including the subsidiaries' income, determining the portion of that income attributable to activities within the state, and taxing that percentage
a unitary business operating throughout the U.S.
imposed a unitary tax on a multinational corporation