unprecedented
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6.3
- adjective
- /ʌnˈprɛsɪdɛntɪd/
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sin precedentes
- The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented changes in how we work and live.
- unprecedented levels
- an unprecedented opportunity
- unprecedented scale
This is, like I said earlier, an unprecedented human event.
- This is, like I said earlier, an unprecedented human event.
- This was an unprecedented event in the Black household.
- We are seeing unprecedented levels of stress in the world.
- However, we do have this perhaps unprecedented demographic collapse that China's facing.
- WhatsApp made this unprecedented decision a couple of years ago.
- We stand in solidarity, in unprecedented unity.
- And this has created an unprecedented division in the American Society.
- He understands that we are in the midst of an unprecedented crisis.
Examples
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The end of the Cold War brought an unprecedented level of security to the United States.
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That requires an unprecedented effort that Europe has never done before.
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This is, like I said earlier, an unprecedented human event.
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The United States is facing unprecedented problems right now.
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The period between that and present day has seen unprecedented change in technology.
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That is an unprecedented shift in where we get our information from.
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We are seeing unprecedented levels of stress in the world.
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This is an unprecedented step in peacetime.
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We've seen an unprecedented bubble in home prices.
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During Reconstruction, America attempted something unprecedented: it gave the former slaves the same political rights as their ex-masters.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
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1.0
Recently made or found and not seen before
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3.5
The only one of its kind
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5.1
New and different, not seen or done before
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6.7
Very unusual because it has never happened before
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6.7
Better than anything else in quality or size
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7.5
Far greater or more surprising than people ever imagined
Not seen or done before
Antonyms
How New
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Unprecedented is made of un- 'not' and precedent 'an earlier example', and it is related to precede 'to come before'. So, unprecedented means 'never happened before' when there is no earlier example to follow.