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as in unused
not having acquired a habit or tolerance
pampered youngsters who were unaccustomed to such hard work
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as in unfamiliar
not known or experienced before
the unaccustomed friendliness of my relatives after I won the lottery
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as in unusual
noticeably different from what is generally found or experienced
unaccustomed styles of cooking that the tourists had to be persuaded to try
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Recent Examples of unaccustomed
While the war’s impact on fuel prices has been obvious at gas stations from coast to coast, a similar inflationary drama is playing out in the fertilizer business — putting an unaccustomed spotlight on CF Industries Holdings of north suburban Northbrook.
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The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Apr. 2026
Perhaps the more plausible explanation is that, with man-to-man marking becoming so pervasive in England’s top flight, the players are unaccustomed to breaking down a zonal block.
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Jon MacKenzie,
New York Times,
21 Apr. 2026
By offering to set aside nearly a third of the units as affordably priced, Vessel is able to use Connecticut’s 8-30g law as powerful leverage to get those plans approved — especially in affluent suburbs unaccustomed to large-scale apartment complexes with modernistic architecture.
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Don Stacom,
Hartford Courant,
24 Feb. 2026
Heat waves now happen in unaccustomed places like the Pacific Northwest.
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Orlando Sentinel,
The Orlando Sentinel,
23 Feb. 2026
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The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Apr. 2026
Perhaps the more plausible explanation is that, with man-to-man marking becoming so pervasive in England’s top flight, the players are unaccustomed to breaking down a zonal block.
—
Jon MacKenzie,
New York Times,
21 Apr. 2026
By offering to set aside nearly a third of the units as affordably priced, Vessel is able to use Connecticut’s 8-30g law as powerful leverage to get those plans approved — especially in affluent suburbs unaccustomed to large-scale apartment complexes with modernistic architecture.
—
Don Stacom,
Hartford Courant,
24 Feb. 2026
Heat waves now happen in unaccustomed places like the Pacific Northwest.
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Orlando Sentinel,
The Orlando Sentinel,
23 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unaccustomed
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Cancel unused subscriptions, negotiate recurring bills, pick up extra shifts or sell unused items around your home.
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Add those numbers up, and the league as a whole is expected to have roughly $208 million of unused cap space during the 2026-27 season.
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Staff weathering the storm The Cubs are more than halfway through the season and playing around a 90-win pace, yet their clubhouse often looks like a scene out of spring training, with new names, unfamiliar faces, and players coming and going.
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Fredericson urges new ruckers to warm up before each session, hydrate well and tell someone the route when heading into unfamiliar areas.
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What Trump is doing is unusual.
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Heat domes are not unusual, but the temperatures in this one have been.
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Last month, many of those companies gathered alongside military officials to address what was clearly an urgent problem requiring novel solutions.
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Preserving a robust problem-solving culture, through methods like case debates and mentorship, is vital to build human expertise AI cannot replicate, preventing a future where organizations lack the ability to tackle novel problems.
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On June 23, 2026, though, the majority delivered an uncommon defeat in this contentious area.
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His distaste for the wealthy is not an uncommon feeling in the country, his defense argued.
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Informal Beyblade battles are popping up in strangest of places, with players huddling in parks, gyms and shopping malls.
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The falseness of the medium, though, jibed with the falseness of most attempts, throughout American history, to make sense of this enormous, strange man.
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Watching improv is reliably funny because performers work without a script.
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But figuring out how to do all that while being funny at the same time?
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The planet’s oceans are at unprecedented temperatures for this time of year, breaking the all-time June record, according to new data, with alarming implications for global weather and marine life.
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The Qatari plane's transfer to the United States marked an unprecedented $400 million donation from a foreign country, with the aircraft later requiring extensive additional work to meet security and technical standards to become Air Force One.
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“Unaccustomed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unaccustomed. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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