Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having no previous example.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having no precedent or example; unexampled.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having no precedent or example; not preceded by a like case; not having the authority of prior example; novel; new; unexampled.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Never before seen or done, without
precedent .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having no precedent; novel
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Seismological Society of America wrote to Italy's president expressing concern about what it called an unprecedented legal attack on science.
Manslaughter trial opens against experts for Italy quake 2011
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The Seismological Society of America wrote to Italy's president expressing concern about what it called an unprecedented legal attack on science.
Manslaughter trial opens against experts for Italy quake 2011
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The word "unprecedented" really does not adequately describe the Fed's intervention to rescue financial institutions.
L. Randall Wray: Let's Make a Deal: The Bail-Out of Wall Street in Unusual and Exigent Circumstances L. Randall Wray 2012
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Their group is seeking legislation to allow for what they called an unprecedented organization to participate in the Egyptian political process.
Egyptian Youth Leaders Plan New Tactics Tamer El-Ghobashy 2011
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House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers praised the administration for winning what he called "unprecedented" international cooperation in going after Libya.
GOP's 2012 Hopefuls Fault Obama's Stance Neil King Jr. 2011
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The word "unprecedented" really does not adequately describe the Fed's intervention to rescue financial institutions.
L. Randall Wray: Let's Make a Deal: The Bail-Out of Wall Street in Unusual and Exigent Circumstances L. Randall Wray 2012
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The word "unprecedented" really does not adequately describe the Fed's intervention to rescue financial institutions.
L. Randall Wray: Let's Make a Deal: The Bail-Out of Wall Street in Unusual and Exigent Circumstances L. Randall Wray 2012
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The word "unprecedented" really does not adequately describe the Fed's intervention to rescue financial institutions.
L. Randall Wray: Let's Make a Deal: The Bail-Out of Wall Street in Unusual and Exigent Circumstances L. Randall Wray 2012
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The word "unprecedented" really does not adequately describe the Fed's intervention to rescue financial institutions.
L. Randall Wray: Let's Make a Deal: The Bail-Out of Wall Street in Unusual and Exigent Circumstances L. Randall Wray 2012
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Al-Jazeera also said its journalists' equipment had been stolen and destroyed during more than a week of unrest and it had faced what it called unprecedented levels of interference in its broadcast signal across the Arab world.
Journalists Rounded Up By Egyptian Army AP/The Huffington Post 2011
sarra commented on the word unprecedented
not bloody pronounced "unpresidented"
July 20, 2009
dbekeny commented on the word unprecedented
WIZARD
This is a highly irregular procedure! This
is absolutely unprecedented!
June 11, 2010
uttarnikhil commented on the word unprecedented
adj. Having no previous example: unprecedented economic growth.
August 25, 2013