Unusually in a sentence as an adverb

Their rules are, I think, unusually clear and specific.

Perhaps this survey is being forwarded around unusually literate people at the top end, or more than 5% of responders are cheating. Where are the fake words to catch cheaters?

This is unusually bad writing for the Atlantic. The article concludes: "Our lower-earning woman paid $484,368 for being single.

More than half of the people who subscribe to the service are still subscribers after two years, which is unusually high for a subscription service. I obviously cannot speak to your girlfriend's experience.

For a long time my mother thought something was wrong with me or that I was unusually sensitive to music. I was actually so embarrassed by it that I hid it from everybody for a very long time.

To me, that sounds like an unusually thoughtful social studies teacher. He is relating the general concepts that he is hired to teach his students to a real-world situation facing the students, and that sounds like good teaching to me.

For most of my life I had to be either unusually excited and happy or under some kind of threat, such as a deadline or an upcoming test, before I could bring myself to concentrate on a task that I didn't find easy. Now I do it every day.

This man must either have forgotten large parts of his own childhood, or have had an unusually carefree one. I mean, yes, the "flavour" of nasty, backstabbing social politics is different accross gender roles and cultures, but it's everywhere.

Compared to it's Arab neighbors, Turkey is astoundingly western and unusually democratic.

Someone discovered that it was possible to pump prices of low liquidity goods, pack ships with said goods, destroy the ships and score an unusually high LP, due to the artificialy inflated "value" of those goods. The underlying mechanism is the same - someone ties some kind of payout to a market price.

Second, if you want employees to be loyal to a company with unusually good perks, taking them fresh out of school is a terrible approach. Many people working here indeed have no real idea what working at non-tech companies is like, and that means they assume every other company is like Google.

In addition to computer hacking/unauthorized access laws having unusually high maximum sentences vs other more more harmful offences.

And I'm afraid a lot of us have been complicit in the unusually long life of this dreadful monster, as well as of its just-as-dreadful offspring, IE8. By "us" I mean everyone who has ever developed a website in the last few years and consciously tweaked the code to make it work in an old version of IE. Or anyone who claimed to discontinue support for IE[6-8] but quietly kept fixing IE[6-8]-related bugs in their spare time.

Some companies have unlimited vacation policies, but unless the culture is unusually positive, these policies are generally harmful in that they require all vacation to be justified in some way. In other words, there is no way to make a meaningful universal statement about vacation.

Org/wiki/Intellipedia To be honest it's not really much more interesting than using your regular run-of-the-mill corporate firewalled intranet, except it's an unusually large organization. Not all Secret information can be shared with our allies.

I think the natural tendency is for any institution to try to grab more power, no matter what the situation is - since 9/11, congress has found doing so unusually easy, and has responded by taking advantage of the opportunity. That's not to say the abuses aren't only a few years away, but I don't think these power-grabs have been done with those abuses as a perceived goal.

But: "SJ did that, which shows that he was unusually willing and able to take the credit and the benefits of someone else's work; so my estimate of the share of the credit and benefits he got later in his career should accordingly be reduced."

Assuming that the solar irradiance begins to recover this year, as expected, there is still some effect on the likelihood of a near-term global temperature record due to the unusually prolonged solar minimum. Because of the large thermal inertia of the ocean, the surface temperature response to the 10-12 year solar cycle lags the irradiance variation by 1-2 years.

What is unusual here - and what so seriously increased the risk to this startup even much more than the norm - is the unusually blatant way in which Best Buy connived to steal the trade secrets. It is blatant in what was done because even by the low standards of much of corporate America it is pretty depraved to knowingly scheme to trick a young company into giving over its valuable company jewels while planning along to steal them.

Quote Examples using Unusually

He actually took unusually high doses for a first-time user. 2. He took none of the additional unusually recommended to prevent or ameliorate the side-effects. 3. That he got every side-effect, even some rare ones, with unusually high severity, seems suspiciously like dramatic license.

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Unusually definitions

adverb

to a remarkable degree or extent; "she was unusually tall"

See also: remarkably outstandingly unco