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Recent Examples of unusually
After an unusually warm and dry stretch, soggy weather could be returning to Phoenix.
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Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 13 Feb. 2026
What Comes Next The scale of this expedition — spanning the full length of Argentina’s continental margin — makes its data set unusually comprehensive.
—Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 13 Feb. 2026
Be cautious of companies that promise specific results or advertise unusually large settlements.
—Roxanne Downer, USA Today, 13 Feb. 2026
The apartment was unusually still, my coffee beside me gone cold, as if bracing for what would come next.
—Adrianne Wright, Fortune, 11 Feb. 2026
But Democrats have remained stuck in their funk for an unusually long stretch.
—Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2026
The discovery of unusually warm molecular hydrogen in these LLAGN is a testament to the unexpected complexity hiding in plain sight.
—Paul Sutter, Space.com, 11 Feb. 2026
Thousands gathered along Southern roadsides — often in unusually chilly weather — to to watch the monks’ quiet procession that began in late October.
—Dallas Morning News, 10 Feb. 2026
That said, two Observer analyses of federal data confirm that assaults on public transit property happen here at an unusually high rate.
—Caitlin McGlade, Charlotte Observer, 10 Feb. 2026
Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 13 Feb. 2026
What Comes Next The scale of this expedition — spanning the full length of Argentina’s continental margin — makes its data set unusually comprehensive.
—Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 13 Feb. 2026
Be cautious of companies that promise specific results or advertise unusually large settlements.
—Roxanne Downer, USA Today, 13 Feb. 2026
The apartment was unusually still, my coffee beside me gone cold, as if bracing for what would come next.
—Adrianne Wright, Fortune, 11 Feb. 2026
But Democrats have remained stuck in their funk for an unusually long stretch.
—Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2026
The discovery of unusually warm molecular hydrogen in these LLAGN is a testament to the unexpected complexity hiding in plain sight.
—Paul Sutter, Space.com, 11 Feb. 2026
Thousands gathered along Southern roadsides — often in unusually chilly weather — to to watch the monks’ quiet procession that began in late October.
—Dallas Morning News, 10 Feb. 2026
That said, two Observer analyses of federal data confirm that assaults on public transit property happen here at an unusually high rate.
—Caitlin McGlade, Charlotte Observer, 10 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unusually
uncommonly
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Meanwhile, the Northeast was beginning to thaw after a weekslong stretch of uncommonly cold weather.—
Dallas Morning News,
Dallas Morning News,
15 Feb. 2026
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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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“Unusually.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unusually. Accessed 18 Feb. 2026.
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