unaccustomed
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Tennessee, Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana -- southern states unaccustomed to intense winter weather and the bone-chilling cold that's forecast to continue for much of the next week -- were especially impacted.
From Barron's • Jan. 26, 2026
For Sarah, a 34-year-old marketer in Michigan, the summer of 2022 was a season flush with unaccustomed success.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025
Vallieries, who’d only won one prior race as a pro, was so unaccustomed to the ritual she appeared baffled by the protocols of her medal ceremony.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025
Murderbot is stoic but awkward and unaccustomed to human emotions, which it learns about by surreptitiously watching hours of soap operas.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2025
She stood for hours, winding yam, her hands clumsy, unaccustomed to the job she had to do, the thread catching, catching on the rough places on her fingers.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
Vocabulary lists containing unaccustomed
Flowers for Algernon
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
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Stories of Ourselves
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