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adjective

unprecedented

never done or known before

In a sentence

Six example sentences with unprecedented, each labelled with its topic.

  • An unprecedented run of eleven road wins put the franchise into a conversation it had spent forty years outside.

    Basketball

  • The central bank cut rates twice in one month, an unprecedented step for an institution that prizes gradual moves.

    Economics

  • Researchers recorded an unprecedented ice-free stretch along that coastline, and the seal colony moved forty kilometers north.

    Environment

  • Turnout in the election was unprecedented, and the polling stations in the city stayed open two hours late.

    Politics

  • The fund's unprecedented loss in a single week erased three years of gains and ended its manager's career.

    Finance

  • The app reached ten million users in nine days, an unprecedented pace that crashed its servers twice.

    Technology

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