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as in uncommon
noticeably different from what is generally found or experienced
we found some unusual shells by the high-tide mark while combing the beach
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as in extraordinary
being out of the ordinary
the famously arrogant actor accepted his award with unusual grace and humility
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Recent Examples of unusual
An unusual addition to a historic cityscape courtesy of artist Jason Jones.
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David Morgan, CBS News, 20 June 2025
Is there a relationship between writing and fiction and unusual height?
—Jane Smiley
june 20, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025
Sources close to Sugar Taco management claim that purchasing from supermarket chains is not an unusual practice in the restaurant business.
—John McDermott, HollywoodReporter, 19 June 2025
But on this particular day, while exploring the pools, the project manager noticed something unusual: the top of a beautiful shell just barely visible through the sand in a small pocket of water.
—Jordan Greene, People.com, 19 June 2025
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David Morgan, CBS News, 20 June 2025
Is there a relationship between writing and fiction and unusual height?
—Jane Smiley
june 20, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025
Sources close to Sugar Taco management claim that purchasing from supermarket chains is not an unusual practice in the restaurant business.
—John McDermott, HollywoodReporter, 19 June 2025
But on this particular day, while exploring the pools, the project manager noticed something unusual: the top of a beautiful shell just barely visible through the sand in a small pocket of water.
—Jordan Greene, People.com, 19 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unusual
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Every great American story is sentimental in the same way: instincts born out of struggle, the triumph of the schoolyard over the classroom, uncommon creativity driven by necessity.—
Jay Caspian Kang,
New Yorker,
23 June 2025
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At the end of the day, the Ducks have an uncommon level of control over personnel between the ability to match any offer sheets to their RFAs and the circumstantial factors surrounding their UFAs.—
Andrew Knoll,
Oc Register,
19 June 2025
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The book chronicles Rajamani’s extraordinary survival from a massive brain hemorrhage at age 25, tackling themes of disability, race, and cultural taboos.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
27 June 2025
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These bargain hunters will sometimes go to extraordinary lengths to find a deal.—
Linnea Geiss,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2025
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This film is set entirely inside a taxi cab that Panahi is driving around Tehran, as different people drift in and out of his car with their own strange and very personal dramas.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
27 June 2025
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The night before the baby junco landed in the research team’s net, a strange, shifting light filtered through the forest, not far from where the Long Trail, Vermont’s end-to-end hiking route, traverses the Mount Mansfield ridgeline.—
Madeline Bodin,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 June 2025
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Unlike traditional computing, which processes information in binary sequences, quantum computing harnesses the unique properties of quantum mechanics—superposition, entanglement and tunneling—to process complex information in entirely new ways.—
Markus Pflitsch,
Forbes.com,
24 June 2025
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Who wouldn’t want content that’s relevant to their unique interests instead of a mess of irrelevant junk?—
Andrew Luttrell,
Time,
24 June 2025
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McGrath's older brother and two of her younger sisters described her as funny, sarcastic, full of life and so caring that the homeless in her neighborhood greeted her by name.—
Amanda Lee Myers,
USA Today,
25 June 2025
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Much like his character, Boyce is mild-mannered, kind and effortlessly funny.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
25 June 2025
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On the pitching side, Tampa Bay’s greatest advantage has been exceptional durability.—
Daniel R. Epstein,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025
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Danny Boyle is a director known for his exceptional use of music to score key — and now iconic — scenes in his films.—
Alex Ritman,
Variety,
25 June 2025
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Sometimes your audio is all screwed up and echoing, there are weird pauses everywhere, and nothing interesting gets said.—
Sean McIndoe,
New York Times,
28 June 2025
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Now its being noted online and by The New York Post that Barry star Bill Hader had a weird day with Kove.—
Kevin Dolak,
HollywoodReporter,
26 June 2025
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And years after contracting measles, people can later develop subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, or SSPE, a rare but fatal complication resulting from a weakened form of the virus remaining in the body, and later infecting the brain.—
Rong-Gong Lin II,
Los Angeles Times,
26 June 2025
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So in our history, this is very rare, and the localization of that kind of violence, to me, is what’s different and new in many ways about this.—
Fiction Non Fiction
June 26,
Literary Hub,
26 June 2025
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“Unusual.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unusual. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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