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Recent Examples of unusually
But last year, one of the state’s 10 resurgent wolf packs became unusually habituated to hunting and eating livestock instead of wild prey.
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Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 6 Feb. 2026
Park City, Utah, one of the West’s most beloved ski destinations, is having an unusually difficult season.
—Alex Schechter, Travel + Leisure, 6 Feb. 2026
For most of the week, Southern California has been unusually warm for this time of year, with temperatures climbing into the 90s in some areas on Wednesday.
—Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2026
This time around, unusually in recent memory, the DGA is not going to be the first to sit with the AMPTP.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 6 Feb. 2026
The spying operation was unusually vast and allowed the hackers to hoover up sensitive information in apparent coordination with geopolitical events, such as diplomatic missions, trade negotiations, political unrest and military actions, according to the report.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2026
If the grass seems unusually soft or spongy, this can also indicate a slow leak underground.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 5 Feb. 2026
While many western states received average or above-average precipitation in the fall and early winter, warmer temperatures caused much of it to fall as rain rather than snow, leading to unusually low snowpack and a rapidly developing snow drought.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 5 Feb. 2026
The early-February heat follows an unusually warm January.
—Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 5 Feb. 2026
Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 6 Feb. 2026
Park City, Utah, one of the West’s most beloved ski destinations, is having an unusually difficult season.
—Alex Schechter, Travel + Leisure, 6 Feb. 2026
For most of the week, Southern California has been unusually warm for this time of year, with temperatures climbing into the 90s in some areas on Wednesday.
—Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2026
This time around, unusually in recent memory, the DGA is not going to be the first to sit with the AMPTP.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 6 Feb. 2026
The spying operation was unusually vast and allowed the hackers to hoover up sensitive information in apparent coordination with geopolitical events, such as diplomatic missions, trade negotiations, political unrest and military actions, according to the report.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2026
If the grass seems unusually soft or spongy, this can also indicate a slow leak underground.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 5 Feb. 2026
While many western states received average or above-average precipitation in the fall and early winter, warmer temperatures caused much of it to fall as rain rather than snow, leading to unusually low snowpack and a rapidly developing snow drought.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 5 Feb. 2026
The early-February heat follows an unusually warm January.
—Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 5 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unusually
uncommonly
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But in the invisibly sculpting hands of Swiss director Petra Volpe and the exquisite performances of two first-rate actors, Kingsley Ben-Adir and Rob Morgan, Frank & Louis is an uncommonly tender incarceration drama.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Jan. 2026
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Nonetheless, in a year in which the studios came through to a remarkable extent and produced some movies of extraordinary artistry on a spectacular scale, the intersection of the art and the business of cinema is uncommonly strong.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
22 Jan. 2026
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“Unusually.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unusually. Accessed 8 Feb. 2026.
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