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unprecedented

[uhn-pres-i-den-tid] / ʌnˈprɛs ɪˌdɛn tɪd /


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The complaint arrives a year after the 2025 animated musical “KPop Demon Hunters” — which centered on Huntrix, a music trio who hunt demons — reached unprecedented heights, becoming Netflix’s most-watched animated original movie.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2026

"The situation is unprecedented," a spokesperson for Maersk, the Danish shipping giant, told AFP.

From Barron's Aug. 20, 2026

The unprecedented $30 million dollar mission attempted to send a robot to grab the telescope and move it farther into orbit.

From Barron's Aug. 19, 2026

On 21 July OpenAI announced some of its AI agents - software systems which can operate alone to accomplish tasks after human instruction - had been involved in what it called an "unprecedented" incident.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

Guiffart is old-fashioned; Pascal does not argue like this, and even Guiffart has to admit at last that the experiments may in fact be unprecedented.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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