adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
singularly unsuccessful (= unsuccessful to a great and noticeable degree )
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The education service has been singularly unsuccessful in achieving greater equality.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a singularly beautiful woman
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Although H-I did what it set out to do, it performed so singularly that people were perplexed by its success.
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But now that the truth is out on both sides, they are surely singularly out of place.
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George Luks was singularly qualified to introduce Margarett to the world of progressive art.
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In appearance he was singularly unprepossessing.
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Jeff Tweedy gave a singularly honest, heartfelt performance that carried him off the stage and into the crowd.
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National Public Radio is singularly effective in promoting a national culture nationwide, reaching where no other institutions penetrate.
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That experience was to prove singularly rich in its diversity and in its legacy of Sussex church architecture.
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These were singularly dry of any news.