sui generis
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At one hour and one minute, “One Shot With Ed Sheeran” is both a novelty and a mini-immersion in its star’s music, which is fairly sui generis.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025
“Sèvres Extraordinaire!” approaches its subject—pioneering, astonishing ceramic confections that are neither purely functional nor purely decorative but sui generis art, or “sculpture”—in the broadest sense.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 1, 2025
To them, even after eight years of experience, the president is some type of sui generis figure, an aberration in American politics and culture.
From Salon • Aug. 30, 2025
It’s been nearly two decades since voters elected a Republican governor, the sui generis Arnold Schwarzenegger.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2024
She thought of the sui generis Hixby’s guidebook, the fictitious Judge Quinzy, and the mysterious danger Miss Mortimer had warned her about.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
