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unwonted

[uhn-wawn-tid, -wohn-, -wuhn-] / ʌnˈwɔn tɪd, -ˈwoʊn-, -ˈwʌn- /


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These days central bankers would meet such unwonted affordability with a gust of money-printing.

From The Wall Street Journal May 29, 2026

This is because of the unwonted affection that the former president displays to his one-time arch-rival.

From BBC Dec. 10, 2025

Some sequences verge on a romp, and the result, though far from Lanthimos’s usual territory, could well bring him an unwonted commercial success.

From The New Yorker Nov. 16, 2018

Backstage, Edinburgh yielded to the south with a sea of Italians washing around the dressing rooms and up to Noseda’s closed door, where the maestro, in unwonted seclusion, was doing his new PT exercises.

From Washington Post Sep. 21, 2017

“We has news,” Bono announced to me, and the unwonted shyness of his manner conveyed his news faster than word.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson




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