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  • The unprecedented success of the OASIS had made Halliday one of the wealthiest people in the world.  (source)
  • Then the school chaplain offered a prayer, lecturing God on the many unprecedented challenges that face today's young people.  (source)
  • On Fifth Avenue that summer, demolition was soon to begin on the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, clearing the way for a skyscraper of unprecedented proportions, the Empire State Building.  (source)
    unprecedented = unmatched (not having happened before)
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  • Every loss is unprecedented. You can't ever know someone else's hurt, not really—just like touching someone else's body isn't the same as having someone else's body.  (source)
    unprecedented = unmatched (not having happened before)
  • The intoxication of success had evaporated; he was soberly his old self; and by contrast with the temporary balloon of these last weeks, the old self seemed unprecedentedly heavier than the surrounding atmosphere.†  (source)
  • He went to his work with unprecedented seriousness.  (source)
    unprecedented = not having happened before
  • Is she beautiful, clever, rich, splendid, universally intelligent and unprecedentedly virtuous?†  (source)
  • Why else would the Gamemakers have made this unprecedented change in the rules?†  (source)
    unprecedented = not having happened before; or nothing similar having happened before
  • But a sudden stop was put to further discoveries, by the ship's being unprecedentedly dragged over sideways to the sea, owing to the body's immensely increasing tendency to sink.†  (source)
  • I also knew that the entire human race would pay an unprecedented price for this goal.†  (source)
  • When I first went to death row in December 1983, America was in the early stages of a radical transformation that would turn us into an unprecedentedly harsh and punitive nation and result in mass imprisonment that has no historical parallel.†  (source)
  • Rarely awake at this hour, Emile was in an unprecedented state of euphoria.†  (source)
  • Is she beautiful, clever, rich, splendid, universally intelligent and unprecedentedly virtuous?†  (source)
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