adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a rare/unusual event
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A sighting of a white deer is a rare event.
a strange/unusual incident
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Any unusual incidents should be reported to the police.
a strange/unusual request
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This is rather an unusual request.
an unusual feature
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The church’s most unusual feature is this window.
an unusual/unprecedented step (= something that is not usually done/has never been done before )
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Police last night took the unusual step of releasing photographs of him.
have a good/long/unusual etc menu
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The new restaurant on Fifth Street has an excellent menu.
strange/unusual/mysterious etc happenings
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There have been reports of strange happenings in the town.
(there is) something different/odd/unusual about sb/sth
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There was something rather odd about him.
unusual circumstances
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There were several unusual circumstances that night.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
highly
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The local committees varied greatly in their composition and operating procedures, some of which were highly unusual .
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It was a highly unusual presentation.
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You can also enjoy a highly unusual view of the area through the cameraobscura at Foredown Tower and Countryside Centre.
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Receiving such intensive medical therapy is highly unusual , allergists said.
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This was highly unusual , since most golfers prefer their caddies to be well out of the way for such crucial short putts.
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They were the ultimate female role models: highly unusual , gifted, respected women.
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Even so, the discovery of an unknown mass grave is highly unusual .
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This was highly unusual at that time.
more
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Many oaks provide intense leaf colour but for something more unusual look out for Nyssa sylvatica, the black gum.
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Now Dively is trying something even more unusual .
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This unusual country is about to become still more unusual.
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That she believes in it, and has seldom succumbed to cynicism about it, is perhaps more unusual .
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Even more unusual was the door because it too was of glass.
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But more unusual was her crackdown on heavy drinking among employees-also a largely male activity and a national plague.
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Rather more unusual is the single pair of Herons that have nested in the centre of Westham village for many years.
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The banked cycling track formed one of cricket's more unusual boundaries.
most
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As Mr. Wildblood, for the child, said, before the justices the case followed a most unusual course.
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The light is democracy and free enterprise, and that light is shining brighter and brighter in the most unusual places.
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She was a most unusual woman.
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The most unusual thing about him was the frozen expression on his face.
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The new maisonettes have turned out to be the most unusual and attractive living spaces.
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This keeps the place pristine, yet allows some of the most unusual yet sensational camping / hiking trips anywhere.
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Orford Ness is one of Britain's most unusual coastal features.
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In the limousine en route to the airport, Carter tried in a most unusual way to reach out to Park.
rather
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Another rather unusual query ... Is it possible to make your own garden gnomes - by casting them?
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A comprehensive, rather unusual wine list pushes diners into trying new wines in order to stay in an affordable price range.
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Uncle Fred had become a marine because of rather unusual circumstances.
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This rather unusual pecking instinct seems to ensure constant gratification for the male.
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All this made Zeinab an interesting woman but a rather unusual one.
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We call our rather unusual breed a Poodorbox!
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As I mentioned earlier, this rather unusual configuration was as a result of customer specification.
so
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Sometimes their life stories are so unusual that truth is stranger than fiction.
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We ended up spending as much time on my campus as his, which is so unusual .
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That's not so unusual , is it?
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After all, a ship lost at sea is a tragedy, but not so unusual .
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One house was so unusual that we stopped and walked around it.
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And it has succeeded, mainly because its premise is so unusual and unexpected.
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I would be so grateful if you could tell me the name of it, because it looks so unusual .
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Anyway, what was so unusual about it?
somewhat
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Because they lead somewhat unusual lives, college teachers are often subjected to this type of elaborate caricature.
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The manual is somewhat unusual in that it actually makes sense.
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The case has a somewhat unusual history, for this is the second hearing in this court concerning this case.
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A young man had epilepsy in a somewhat unusual form.
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In another sense, the current romance rage is somewhat unusual .
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There are two examples, albeit somewhat unusual ones.
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There were hundreds of pictures on that wall, forming a somewhat unusual collage.
very
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The Siege of Chattanooga had at least one very unusual aspect: Many of the besiegers were as miserable as the besieged.
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More so than those, however, it is a slightly unusual name, one fit for a very unusual man.
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It was a very unusual case.
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He awoke with a slight headache and a keen appetite, a very unusual combination for him.
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Amelia was a very unusual resident, the only person permitted by Mary Simkhovitch to use Greenwich House somewhat as a hotel.
■ NOUN
case
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Chimpanzees have been observed to indulge in mobbing in certain unusual cases .
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Yes, there are unusual cases .
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In some unusual cases one is willing to apply the term when only one of these conditions obtains.
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It was a very unusual case .
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Meanwhile, Tracey is about to embark on one of the most unusual cases of her career.
circumstances
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Consumer spending for services were boosted by some unusual circumstances .
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Uncle Fred had become a marine because of rather unusual circumstances .
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Two professional baseball players find their lives drawn together in unusual circumstances .
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Non-consultation may be justified on one or more of these grounds, but only in unusual circumstances .
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But such a decline was illusory - caused largely by the unusual circumstances of the 1931 General Election.
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Few appeared perturbed at beginning a new life in such unusual circumstances .
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Owing to the unusual circumstances there would have to be a coroner's inquest.
event
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This, it is being made clear, is an unusual event .
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An unusual event which cost me dear but it made the point to Chutra as to who was the leader around here.
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People knocking at the door was a very unusual event in this household.
feature
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An unusual feature is the very lengthy glossary running to 37 pages for 46 terms.
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Another unusual feature in this price class: outputs that enable those wishing to upgrade their home theater with separate power amplifiers.
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The long, stout spines are an unusual feature which discriminates this species from other gastropods.
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Then write an outstanding characteristic-a physical attribute, a result it brings, or an unusual feature .
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Something else you can look for is an unusual feature that may attract fish to it.
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Geophysicists had anticipated finding unusual features along the mid-ocean ridges since shortly after these plate borders were discovered.
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But two or three unusual features of last week's cut fired the imagination of New York's conspiracy theorists.
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The size, shape and placing of these windows did much to fashion the unusual features of the ascent stage's face.
name
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More so than those, however, it is a slightly unusual name , one fit for a very unusual man.
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What an unusual name for a gallery.
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It's an unusual name , isn't it?
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The house has a most unusual name too.
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There's no evidence to suggest that an unusual names increase the selling rate.
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Success rating out of 25-10 Stevee Mayes Landmark Duckstein-an unusual name .
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Stuart Clark asked him why the sail has such an unusual name ?
step
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That is why Le Monde took the unusual step of acting as a mouthpiece for the representatives of underground movements.
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And it is taking the unusual step of buying ownership stakes in some projects.
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The situation has prompted the prison governor to take the unusual step of refusing to accept any more remand prisoners.
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This was an unusual step for Polybius, the more remarkable because he had taken part in the destruction of Carthage.
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In 1899 the company took the unusual step of appointing him general manager, a tribute to his administrative as well as engineering abilities.
way
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As he sat there breakfasting with his younger brother, he watched his father busying himself in an unusual way .
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One of those smaller enterprises was started several years ago in a very unusual way .
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She must have come to know her employers better than many others, and certainly in a quite different and unusual way .
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In the limousine en route to the airport, Carter tried in a most unusual way to reach out to Park.
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I can love my wife in the usual way and I can love Shinko in the unusual way!
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Jill succeeded because she dared to apply for a position in an unusual way .
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We often defend what we do in the most unusual ways - do you recognize any of these in you?
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She had a special, very unusual way of kicking.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a very unusual flavor
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Alan's work shows unusual talent and originality.
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He had an unusual ability to rise above the prejudices of his generation.
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I first met Maria in unusual circumstances -- we were both stuck in a Brazilian airport.
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It's unusual for Dave to be late.
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It is unusual to find lakes of this size in Britain.
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Louise makes hats that are eye-catching and unusual .
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She had an unusual last name - Peachtree or Plumtree or something like that.
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We had snow in April, which is very unusual .
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We were beginning to worry. It was unusual for David to be so late.
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Yuri invited me to sample some of Osaka's more unusual restaurants.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And it is taking the unusual step of buying ownership stakes in some projects.
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And yet it is not unusual to hear of problems.
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The long, stout spines are an unusual feature which discriminates this species from other gastropods.
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They had seen and heard nothing unusual .
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To a lawyer it was an unusual and dangerous kind of will.