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unanimous

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Definition with everyone in agreement
  • It was a unanimous decision.
unanimous = with everyone in complete agreement
  • The chairperson encouraged the committee to come up with a statement they could agree to unanimously.
  • unanimously = with complete agreement
  • Mrs. Dubose lived two doors up the street from us; neighborhood opinion was unanimous that Mrs. Dubose was the meanest old woman who ever lived.
    Harper Lee  --  To Kill a Mockingbird
  • unanimous = agreed upon by everyone
  • The bosses were unanimous, however, in voting down Papi's next raise.
    Junot Diaz  --  Drown
  • Caribou were becoming scarce to the point of rarity, and wolves were unanimously held to be to blame.
    Farley Mowat  --  Never Cry Wolf
  • The shout was unanimous and hearty.
    Mark Twain  --  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
  • "The choice was unanimous," Luke announced.
    Rick Riordan  --  The Lightning Thief
  • "Carried unanimously," I repeated, going on with my work.
    Charles Dickens  --  Bleak House
  • Since these are criminal proceedings, understand, your verdict—whether guilty or not so—must be a unanimous one.
    David Guterson  --  Snow Falling on Cedars
  • Two days ago, the Secretariat Council voted unanimously to revoke the Vatican's sanction of Opus Dei.
    Dan Brown  --  The Da Vinci Code
  • In the end, the recommendation from the transplant committee was unanimous.
    Nicholas Sparks  --  The Best of Me
  • The unanimous selection was Cabin Gulch.
    Zane Grey  --  The Border Legion
  • JUDGE The jury's decision is unanimous.
    Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee  --  Inherit the Wind
  • Sorry, forget all that, I meant mountain falling, the Grand Prix Hindu Crash, awarded unanimously to Sherpa Marcus the Unsteady.
    Marcus Luttrell  --  Lone Survivor
  • There was unanimous, automatic, unquestioned agreement...nor did I ever hear the slightest suggestion that we should do otherwise.
    James Bradley  --  Flags of Our Fathers
  • To which they unanimously replied, "That they would fight to their last drop of blood."
    Daniel Defoe  --  Robinson Crusoe
  • My friends led me to believe that the people of Nebraska were almost unanimously against me.
    John F. Kennedy  --  Profiles in Courage
  • In the Seleznevsky district Sviazhsky was elected unanimously without a ballot, and he gave a dinner that evening.
    Leo Tolstoy  --  Anna Karenina
  • The Professor with these words ceased his oration, and I burst forth into loud and "unanimous" applause.
    Jules Verne  --  A Journey to the Center of the Earth
  • Six months later, by unanimous agreement, Florentino Ariza was named President of the Board of Directors and General Manager of the company.
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez  --  Love in the Time of Cholera

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