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Recent Examples of unprecedented
By carefully curating both its clients and vendors, OS Group has filled a key void in the industry, sourcing bulk product for smaller stores and growing at unprecedented rates.
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Riley Jones, Footwear News, 4 Nov. 2025
Related Stories The market has drawn an unprecedented international contingent, with South Korea sending the largest delegation of nearly 100 representatives, followed by France with 80 delegates who also established a national pavilion.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 4 Nov. 2025
The four-meter-wide telescope can detect faint shifts in light that reveal how plasma moves through the corona, allowing scientists to see the sun in unprecedented detail.
—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 4 Nov. 2025
While Americans are pinching their pennies amid SNAP cuts, soaring housing costs, and mass layoffs, the ultra-rich are seeing unprecedented wealth gains.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2025
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Riley Jones, Footwear News, 4 Nov. 2025
Related Stories The market has drawn an unprecedented international contingent, with South Korea sending the largest delegation of nearly 100 representatives, followed by France with 80 delegates who also established a national pavilion.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 4 Nov. 2025
The four-meter-wide telescope can detect faint shifts in light that reveal how plasma moves through the corona, allowing scientists to see the sun in unprecedented detail.
—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 4 Nov. 2025
While Americans are pinching their pennies amid SNAP cuts, soaring housing costs, and mass layoffs, the ultra-rich are seeing unprecedented wealth gains.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unprecedented
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The novel centers on Rose, a wife and mother who has recently moved to a picturesque mansion in Florida with her husband Grant and son James.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
PEOPLE,
4 Nov. 2025
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The staffing problem at Miami Correctional is also hardly novel.—
Kristine Phillips,
IndyStar,
4 Nov. 2025
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When the humans return, there are only a handful, better clothed, hair braided and combed, new fashions.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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In September, Vanity Fair wrote a story detailing new revelations around his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson’s correspondence with the disgraced financier.—
Max Tani,
semafor.com,
3 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Also this week, celebrity chef José Andres reveals his latest cookbook, the strange case of two hyper-specific vending machines, and the neverending epic of Cracker Barrel’s redesign fiasco adds yet another chapter.—
Sam Stone,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
31 Oct. 2025
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But there's a strange intimacy to Talk to Me's premise, in which teens act tough by holding a mummified hand, declaring the titular phrase, and inviting one lucky spirit from the other side to inhabit their body.—
Dennis Perkins,
Entertainment Weekly,
31 Oct. 2025
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Her comedy plays like a loving travelogue of her life laid out with an assurance that these details will be unfamiliar, thrilling, and exotic.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
4 Nov. 2025
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Review the reports for unfamiliar accounts or inquiries.—
Jan Diaz,
USA Today,
4 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Top news OpenAI taps AWS Amazon shares closed at a record high Monday after OpenAI agreed to buy $38 billion worth of AWS capacity in a fresh sign that the ChatGPT developer is no longer dependent on Microsoft.—
Diane Brady,
Fortune,
4 Nov. 2025
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This month, young readers can curl up with nonfiction explorations of the galaxy, thumb through an old astronomy textbook with a fresh new story to tell, or experience the peace of being (almost) alone on the moon.—
Caroline Carlson,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Milei’s agenda of deregulation and free markets was unheard-of in deeply statist Argentina.—
Agustina Vergara Cid,
Oc Register,
25 Oct. 2025
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For a candidate to alienate the most powerful individuals in their political party even before a race gets going seriously is an unheard-of no-no.—
Thomas Elias,
Mercury News,
14 Oct. 2025
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During which Helm suffered loneliness, inconsequence and ignorance – an original and terrible fugue state.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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Authorities did not release the owner’s identity or the monkeys’ original destination, citing confidentiality agreements.—
Greg Wehner,
FOXNews.com,
2 Nov. 2025
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“Unprecedented.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unprecedented. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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