unusual
IPA: ʌnjˈuʒuʌɫ
noun
- Something that is unusual; an anomaly.
adjective
- Not usual, out of the ordinary.
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Examples of "unusual" in Sentences
- Back in bed, Walters said he heard the dog bark once, which he characterized as unusual.
- They like to do what they call unusual things; they like to shock people -- think it's smart.
- He noted that the city's wealthiest ZIP Codes—Fifth Avenue, Park, Central Park West—are in its geographic center rather than along its edges, which he described as unusual.
- According to the cable obtained by the website WikiLeaks, U.S. officials reported that Israel worked with the Chilean government to monitor what it called "unusual activity" by Iran's envoy to Santiago.
- To this he adds what he calls unusual circumstances, including "the fruits and tailwinds of globalization, billions of people added to the labor supply, new factories and productivity coming from places it had never come from before."
- Rice, speaking after President Obama's meeting with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, praised what she described as an "unusual and important" sense of urgency in the U.N. Security Council's response to the crisis in Libya, where thousands of citizens have formed a mass protest demanding Qaddafi's ouster.
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