extraordinary
Example Sentences
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Stalin “possessed both an uncontrollable temper and extraordinary willpower. He was capable of bewildering recklessness and cold-blooded displays of control.”
It took violence, punitive taxes, the Intolerable Acts and more to spur Americans to take the extraordinary step of breaking with Britain.
At the time, and among her contemporaries, there was nothing very extraordinary about her sentiments.
Yet, in one of the more extraordinary fixtures in recent sporting memory, the United States upset mighty Canada in Italy on Sunday to capture the Olympic gold medal in men’s ice hockey.
From Los Angeles Times
Instead, what they’ve gotten is something far more puzzling: steady retail growth on the surface, paired with an extraordinary buildup of household savings underneath.
From MarketWatch
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
