adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a remarkable/amazing/extraordinary coincidence
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What an extraordinary coincidence meeting you here!
a remarkable/extraordinary achievement (= one that is unusual or surprising and deserves praise )
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In recognition of this remarkable achievement he was awarded the OBE.
extraordinary rendition
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
how
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Betty was being rude to her. How extraordinary .
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And the acceptance of excrement as a standard? How extraordinary !
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I said, how extraordinary , look at the swallows.
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And how extraordinary his life was already.
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I often wonder just how extraordinary some of our customs must appear to those who have no experience of churchgoing.
more
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Anderson's behaviour appears even more extraordinary when, having initiated this topic he immediately closes it.
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However, the real story of Le Pin is even more extraordinary than the astonishing prices.
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I said that I had never heard anything more extraordinary .
most
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The two men, however, seemed to be accompanied by a most extraordinary smell.
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They were the most extraordinary eyes he had ever seen.
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But then follows the most extraordinary and graceful ballet.
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Monk shares the piano bench with Horace Silver, a most extraordinary moment in jazz history.
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And now, quite slowly, there began to creep over Matilda a most extraordinary and peculiar feeling.
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We live within the most extraordinary mythic drama imaginable.
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Edith Taylor's story is one of the most extraordinary .
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But shortly she seemed to falter, and at the same time I beheld a most extraordinary thing.
quite
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But now something quite extraordinary happens.
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But it is quite extraordinary that no woman has won the prize since it's inception.
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This is a quite extraordinary extrapolation from experience.
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They stopped at the top of the hill and sat down. Quite extraordinary behaviour - the rain was pouring down.
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Some quite extraordinary statements are being made.
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The flounder has become adapted to bottom-living to a quite extraordinary degree.
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As normal as Nechita seems, she is clearly quite extraordinary .
so
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It therefore gives little hint of what makes its author so extraordinary a figure.
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It was so extraordinary it had to be true.
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In fact, these powers were not so extraordinary by local standards.
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The contrast during the week of mission was so extraordinary as to affect Ramsey's life.
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Why do you find that so extraordinary ?
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On the other hand, perhaps, in the fourth century, it was not so extraordinary after all.
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It seems to us so extraordinary , yet the storyteller does not blink an eyelid.
■ NOUN
ability
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These aren't really a type of virus; the name merely describes their extraordinary ability to hide from anti-virus software.
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His speeches at maneuver conferences were always logical and enlightening, and one could not help respecting his extraordinary ability .
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I am always struck by Pollini's extraordinary ability to integrate even the most fearless of contrasts into a convincing whole.
achievement
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There have been attempts to depict this extraordinary achievement as a form of musical consumerism.
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His extraordinary achievements of discovery, surveying and collecting were not acknowledged in his lifetime.
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Technically it is an extraordinary achievement .
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The Jubilee 2000 campaign, which officially ended last week, has been an extraordinary achievement .
amount
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Even then, it takes an extraordinary amount of opposition to sink a nominee.
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It pumps an extraordinary amount of money into a very small region.
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They have sifted through an extraordinary amount of information, and compiled a readable, thorough and ground-breaking account of the subject.
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The answer is, an extraordinary amount , and likely far more than you realize.
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In the United States, extraordinary amounts of money are now contributed to political actors by interest groups.
charge
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The group's investments in Berisford and Hillsdown have been further written down resulting in an extraordinary charge of £31m.
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The planned repurchase would result in an extraordinary charge of about $ 22 million against first-quarter earnings, the company said.
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An extraordinary charge of £11.7 million covers the closure of businesses and goodwill write-offs.
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Pergamon included an extraordinary charge of £38.7m but gave no further details.
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After a hefty extraordinary charge for disposals and closures, Storehouse showed a £28.3m loss.
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The Darlington group also suffered from an extraordinary charge associated with the imminent sales of £2.5m.
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The figures are struck before an extraordinary charge of £2.3m reflecting costs incurred in the failed Forte catering bid.
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Pre-tax profits were down 4.9% at £77m, reflecting £43m extraordinary charges .
circumstances
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The Bursar explains that this is an extraordinary measure in extraordinary circumstances .
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Extraordinary events and extraordinary circumstances tend to produce new ways of looking at things.
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We are, after all, ordinary people, albeit born to live in extraordinary circumstances .
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No wonder, at her age, and in such extraordinary circumstances .
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We would need extraordinary circumstances to arise before we abandoned laws like the Law of Non-Contradiction.
congress
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The split was formally approved at an extraordinary congress in Prague on Feb. 23.
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A new central committee would be chosen at an extraordinary congress , fixed for April 10.
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The extraordinary Congress of People's Deputies session convened on March 12.
degree
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The flounder has become adapted to bottom-living to a quite extraordinary degree .
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In that, he succeeded to an extraordinary degree .
event
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I was sticky with mud, and my mind kept going over and over the extraordinary events of the afternoon and evening.
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He provides straight forward accounts not only of the fall of the Aegospotami meteorite, but of many other extraordinary events .
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That is the latest bizarre instalment in the never-ending story of extraordinary events at Underhill.
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In fact it was an extraordinary event and all the people who were there became totally engaged.
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This month an extraordinary event takes place at Harrods.
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Hands linked behind her head, she lay for a while thinking over the extraordinary events of the day.
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What was the meaning of such an extraordinary event ?
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The activity gave a normality to the scene which belied the extraordinary events that had taken place there just a few days before.
item
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In another year, a capital receipt was credited to the profit and loss account but shown as an extraordinary item .
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It earned S $ 32 million last year before an extraordinary item .
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If material, it would be treated as an extraordinary item .
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He tackles familiar areas such as goodwill and intangibles, depreciation and extraordinary items .
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The treatment of exceptional and extraordinary items .
length
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And some of them will go to extraordinary lengths to try to find out.
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Every man had his say - some at extraordinary length .
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The Essex-based dance star has gone to extraordinary lengths to mask his identity since storming the charts with his debut single.
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The Bible laws of mikva are so important for women, that women have gone to extraordinary lengths to keep them.
man
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He was just a very extraordinary man and I was very fortunate to have had those twelve years.
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He was an extraordinary man , one of the most civilized and cultured men I have ever met.
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Rose Quinton looked at the extraordinary man and thought as many another had: what a pity!
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As a matter of fact, it was the finest and most extraordinary man I ever knew.
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What the court ruled on was the ordinary everyday behaviour of an extraordinary man .
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Perhaps part of the difficulty lies in the extraordinary man who is his subject.
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It was marvellous to see so many young people paying their tribute to this extraordinary man .
meeting
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Already he has called an extraordinary meeting of directors and supporters to discuss his radical new proposals.
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And the Press Council called senior editors to the first extraordinary meeting convened in its twenty-seven-year history to discuss the matter.
number
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There were extraordinary numbers of roads that had no signposts.
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He drew deeply on a cigarette, stubbing it afterwards in an ashtray which held an extraordinary number of butts.
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Making an extraordinary number of handling errors and under-using the speed in their backs, Widnes were scarcely in the hunt.
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There seemed to be an extraordinary number of people in the street.
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An equally extraordinary number of replies found their way back in a deluge to Manchester.
power
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One folk tale about Johnson suggested he was protected by an extraordinary power .
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As the story unfolds, first Axel and then Alec come to wield extraordinary power in Washington without running for elective office.
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Another aspect of Bob's extraordinary powers behind the wheel was that drink did not affect them.
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We have only to look about us to witness the extraordinary power that our understandings of Nature have helped us to obtain.
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The central committee was granted extraordinary powers to take policy decisions during the current crisis period.
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He was an extraordinarily powerful individual, and he demanded extraordinary power .
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The Who are legendary examples of the extraordinary power that music can achieve.
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It gave Becton the title of chief executive officer and conferred extraordinary powers upon him.
story
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It is the most extraordinary story , of a life marked by astonishing luck, both bad and good.
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It's only when you've heard his extraordinary story that you realise this is no ordinary man.
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I was still dazed by the extraordinary story he had told me.
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This extraordinary story was inspired by the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the disillusion which followed.
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This extraordinary story was ruthlessly edited down to its allotted span and eventually tucked away in the last of four hour-long programmes.
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It is an extraordinary story , about an extraordinary family, and one that I wanted to witness at first hand.
success
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Not in the wildest days of his boyish visions could he have seen the alluring shape of such an extraordinary success !
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The test was an extraordinary success .
thing
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A few days after they had learnt that Haroun was the illegitimate son of Jazali an extraordinary thing had happened.
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I did a number of extraordinary things before I was two.
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The extraordinary thing is that reviewing isn't done more often as a systematic deliberate process.
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This was a fairly extraordinary thing for Volkov to have done.
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I have extraordinary things to report about the child.
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The four plump man-apes were still there, and now they were doing extraordinary things .
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For this was the extraordinary thing about Pipeline.
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The extraordinary thing about his neighbor is that he knew she really meant this foolish remark.
woman
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Let us talk instead about our hostess; what an extraordinary woman !
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Luckily I met an extraordinary woman who helped me.
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Anne Nielson was an extraordinary woman , as he had known for years.
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The catalyst for this transformation was an extraordinary woman named Kimi Gray.
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But Sinead is an extraordinary woman .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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According to Shafer, many people in high positions hold some extraordinary beliefs.
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Everything about the woman -- her hair, eyes, and jewellery -- gleamed with extraordinary brilliance.
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He's the most extraordinary man I've ever met.
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He really was a most extraordinary man.
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He said it was an extraordinary decision and would send many industries spinning into recession.
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She left her husband, and in 1912 that was an extraordinary thing to do.
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The man's story was so extraordinary that I didn't know whether to believe him or not.
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The show's ratings were extraordinary - it was a huge success.
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The view from up here is extraordinary .
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The whole incident had been quite extraordinary .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A madness, an extraordinary fanaticism, took possession of all these new worshippers of the sun.
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As the story unfolds, first Axel and then Alec come to wield extraordinary power in Washington without running for elective office.
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At this point I was witness to an extraordinary , moving and almost frightening scene.
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Bley plays acoustic piano in duo with Steve Swallow, and their rapport projects extraordinary warmth on this delightful album.
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It is not the story of extraordinary families.
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Sometimes this sympathy could involve quite extraordinary leniency.
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That would give them extraordinary power over the lives of other people on a level simply not acceptable in a democracy.
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Their system of working can lead to extraordinary scenes.