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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
The Orioles’ position player group, however, is largely a collection of young, first-round picks unaccustomed to adversity.
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Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025
He’s become unaccustomed to living in the world of daylight.
—Cressida Leyshon, New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2025
But customers unaccustomed to inflation in the apparel sector and coming off several years of steep rise in the costs of groceries and housing may be extra sensitive to any big jumps in clothing prices.
—Anne D'innocenzio, Chicago Tribune, 6 Apr. 2025
Beshear declared a state of emergency for the western part of the state, citing potentially record rainfall in areas unaccustomed to flooding.
—Rebekah Riess, CNN Money, 5 Apr. 2025
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Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025
He’s become unaccustomed to living in the world of daylight.
—Cressida Leyshon, New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2025
But customers unaccustomed to inflation in the apparel sector and coming off several years of steep rise in the costs of groceries and housing may be extra sensitive to any big jumps in clothing prices.
—Anne D'innocenzio, Chicago Tribune, 6 Apr. 2025
Beshear declared a state of emergency for the western part of the state, citing potentially record rainfall in areas unaccustomed to flooding.
—Rebekah Riess, CNN Money, 5 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unaccustomed
Adjective
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This is an open-box unit, meaning it was returned unused or lightly handled and repackaged after inspection.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
17 Oct. 2025
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The Greek forward was an unused substitute for Brighton’s 1-1 draw at Wolverhampton Wanderers in the last fixture before the October international break.—
Andy Naylor,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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The Administration had been slow to hire, and many staffers were unfamiliar with the intricacies of bureaucratic combat.—
Emma Green,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
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Through hashtags such as #LifeAfterDeportation, creators share clips about finding work, struggling with Spanish, enrolling their kids in school, and other challenges of rebuilding a life in an unfamiliar place.—
Christina Noriega,
Refinery29,
13 Oct. 2025
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The shake-up leaves an unusual number of spots open on the party’s Central Committee, which began its term in 2022 with 205 members and 171 non-voting alternates.—
Simone McCarthy,
CNN Money,
20 Oct. 2025
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Moose Jaw was actually unusual for its welcoming of Chinese immigrants, no small achievement in the often violently racist response to Asian immigrants to North America.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
20 Oct. 2025
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Break out of a rut by being open to novel approaches toward love and by being less codependent.—
Lisa Stardust,
Refinery29,
14 Oct. 2025
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The team employed a novel method using lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) to deliver messenger RNA (mRNA) directly to the testes.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Oct. 2025
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Such alerts are relatively uncommon for Los Angeles.—
Anna Skinner,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Oct. 2025
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The play, by Jordan Ramirez Puckett, follows a mother-son cross-country road trip peppered with the teen’s hip-hop music as a brown son and his white mother seek common ground in their uncommon pasts.—
Anne Gelhaus,
Mercury News,
12 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson spent his leisure time writing down the strange new lyrics in his journal.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Oct. 2025
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The place was a dump, with paint chipping from the ceilings, floors slanted at strange angles, rodent droppings situated along the floorboards, and paper-thin walls that welcomed in bitter winter air.—
Jeff Pearlman,
Rolling Stone,
17 Oct. 2025
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His writing is lavishly detailed and sharply intelligent, nuanced and lyrical but also funny and sometimes surreal.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 Oct. 2025
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The dudes-rock montage that followed the execution sketch had some genuinely funny bits.—
T. M. Brown,
New Yorker,
15 Oct. 2025
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The Administration has also issued reductions in force at agencies such as the Treasury Department and Health and Human Services, firing more than four thousand workers—an unprecedented action during a shutdown.—
Emma Green,
New Yorker,
15 Oct. 2025
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The film was being produced for an unprecedented $200 million budget — the most expensive movie ever made at the time — and the general public wasn't yet convinced that a movie about an 85-year-old maritime tragedy was anything to get hyped about.—
Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
14 Oct. 2025
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“Unaccustomed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unaccustomed. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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