EXTRAORDINARILY Synonyms: 68 Similar and Opposite Words

extraordinarily

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Definition of extraordinarily

as in unusually

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Recent Examples of extraordinarily And that’s what’s fueling what is shaping up to be an extraordinarily strong El Niño. — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2026 Maintaining multiple funding relationships can require more administrative effort, but diversification becomes extraordinarily valuable when one source of capital retrenches. — Erik Clarke, Forbes.com, 26 Oct. 2026 The fashion double act perfectly fit the rhythm of a musician whose personal style has become increasingly eclectic, oscillating between oversized sportswear, collegiate staples, rare archival finds, and extraordinarily expensive accessories. — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2026 This is extraordinarily good news for leaders, because emotional features cost almost nothing to deliver. — Deborah Lovich, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2026 Midterm elections are extraordinarily important in shaping the future of policymaking, even if the payoff is delayed. — Dylan Scott, Vox, 22 Oct. 2026 No bigger than a microwave oven, Idefix will plop onto Phobos by itself, bouncing for several minutes before coming to a halt in the moon's extraordinarily low gravity. — Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2026 The territory’s population boomed and quickly turned the distant region into an extraordinarily valuable part of the United States. — Monitor Reviewers, Christian Science Monitor, 19 Oct. 2026 Performed by legends Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, the silly song is a tongue-twister for kiddos, and the titular word, which means ‘extraordinarily good, wonderful’ even made its way into some real deal dictionaries. — Stephanie Ganz Published, Parents, 18 Oct. 2026

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The company is moving through federal safety reviews at an unusually rapid pace.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026
Jonathan Van Meter, the legendary magazine writer and editor, has spent much of his career getting unusually close to famous women.

— Maer Roshan, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of unusually

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Fixes for what are believed to be uncommonly severe vulnerabilities are scheduled to drop in a little more than 12 hours for PHP, a programming language that powers websites and Web applications everywhere.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 21 Oct. 2026
Neither starter excelled on a tense, uncommonly hot October night in downtown San Diego.

— ABC News, ABC News, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of uncommonly

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After recent seasons of attempting to singularly lift the Milwaukee Bucks, Antetokounmpo found himself not only again in the midst of heavy lifting, but this time also second best on the court.

— Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 21 Oct. 2026
That the university is prepared to sacrifice a vital cultural resource in order to save a relatively small amount of money strikes me — and others as singularly short-sighted and ill-advised.

— Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of singularly

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This can lead to a potentially serious condition called hypermagnesemia, where blood magnesium levels are abnormally high.

— MD Published, Verywell Health, 14 Oct. 2026
On Wednesday, temperatures will still remain abnormally high, although fewer records are expected to fall than in days past.

— Austin Turner, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of abnormally

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Although the costuming department appears to have bought out every pinstripe rayon fabric available in a 50-mile radius of the Italian villa where the series is filmed, The Mob is remarkably unsophisticated.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2026
Nonetheless, the ways some young Americans become embedded in violent organizations – and the difficulty of leaving them – overlap remarkably with the child soldier experience.

— Charles Wratto, The Conversation, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of remarkably

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There's no doubt that Riley Green's acoustic performances are incredibly popular.

— David Hookstead OutKick, FOXNews.com, 26 Oct. 2026
These teachers work with students who have an incredibly diverse set of needs, including those with autism, learning disabilities such as dyslexia, developmental delays and physical disabilities.

— Jonaki Mehta, NPR, 26 Oct. 2026

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