sui generis
Example Sentences
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He was, however, an original, with a sui generis style both intense and charming.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 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
Parker was often abrasive, but Crowther considers Parker empathetically, as a sui generis who resisted becoming a cog in the filmmaking machinery.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2024
Melinda is sui generis, and so generous too. vichyssoise.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
