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not known or experienced before
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Recent Examples of unprecedented
While the mission was designed with dark energy, dark matter, and exoplanets in mind, Roman’s unprecedented observational capability will offer practically limitless opportunities for astronomers to explore all kinds of cosmic topics.
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Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 May 2026
For one, the unprecedented pay package awarded last year consisted entirely of equity award grants.
—Bloomberg, Oc Register, 1 May 2026
For many, these new long-acting contraceptives were liberatory, offering unprecedented reproductive control.
—Sonya Borrero, STAT, 1 May 2026
There were four last week alone — nearly unprecedented.
—James Mirtle, New York Times, 1 May 2026
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Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 May 2026
For one, the unprecedented pay package awarded last year consisted entirely of equity award grants.
—Bloomberg, Oc Register, 1 May 2026
For many, these new long-acting contraceptives were liberatory, offering unprecedented reproductive control.
—Sonya Borrero, STAT, 1 May 2026
There were four last week alone — nearly unprecedented.
—James Mirtle, New York Times, 1 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unprecedented
Adjective
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Given the novel situation, airline and airport staff needed to work within flight safety protocol on the fly to decide what actions to take.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
3 May 2026
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The veteran Midwest emo group’s fourth record traipses into somewhat novel post-rock, shoegaze, and math-y territory.—
Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
1 May 2026
Adjective
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The film has also landed a pair of high-profile new additions.—
Kennedy French,
Variety,
8 May 2026
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There was a lot wrong with it, and new things were going wrong all the time, but many of the old things that had been going wrong were also getting fixed.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
8 May 2026
Adjective
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The truck had been at the head of a column of seven rescue vehicles, all of which had received clearance from the tower to cross Runway 4 at Taxiway D and head toward a United Airlines flight that was evacuating due to a strange odor onboard.—
Evan Simko-Bednarski,
New York Daily News,
28 Apr. 2026
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On World Rhythms, Lockwood trusts the listener to hear the arc of its noises, to trace their emergence and disappearance, their strange, seductive confluence.—
Joshua Minsoo Kim,
Pitchfork,
28 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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These fascinating, mind-scrambling books show familiar events from unfamiliar perspectives.—
Daniel Immerwahr,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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This was unfamiliar territory for the showrunners.—
Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
4 May 2026
Adjective
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The striking blooms make excellent cut flowers, both fresh and dried, and attract butterflies and bees to the garden.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
3 May 2026
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Spring desserts should be easy, sweet, and loaded with the season's best produce, like fresh berries.—
Sarah Martens,
Better Homes & Gardens,
3 May 2026
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This is a monumental and often impossible moment for media companies, when the corporate leaders who control them have been put under unprecedented government pressure even as the rhetoric from all quarters rises to unheard-of levels.—
Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Apr. 2026
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In an age where most electrics are looking towards the future with unheard-of modern tech on board, the C6 sports a WWII-era girder-style front fork and a monoshock with an internal floating piston at the rear.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
15 Apr. 2026
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But the filmmaker’s imagination transfigures personal history into something not of this world, wholly original, and uniquely demented.—
Rachel Syme,
New Yorker,
8 May 2026
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In the video, published in 2024 and noted in the lawsuit, James references the original sketch work for Neytiri.—
Alexandra Del Rosario,
Los Angeles Times,
8 May 2026
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“Unprecedented.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unprecedented. Accessed 9 May. 2026.
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