unprecedented move

collocation in English

meaningsofunprecedentedandmove

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unprecedented
adjective
uk
/ʌnˈpres.ɪ.den.tɪd/us
/ʌnˈpres.ə.den.t̬ɪd/
never having happened or existed in ...
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move
noun
uk
/muːv/us
/muːv/
an act ...
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(Definition ofunprecedentedandmovefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Romanticism was a somewhat early but notunprecedentedmove.
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This was not, however, anunprecedentedmove.
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I congratulate the fans on theunprecedentedmoveof setting up a supporters trust.
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In anunprecedentedmove, the editor put his own letter on the front page.
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Anunprecedentedmove, it was the quickest and most effective way of registering our horror at what we found there.
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In anunprecedentedmove, he was made confessor to some monks who had been convicted of bewitching the king.
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In 2002 the entire senior hurling panel took theunprecedentedmoveof going on strike.
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Theunprecedentedmoveforced the indefinite suspension of any further investigation into the pair.
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In anunprecedentedmove, 115 members of faculty petitioned the chancellor to halt the transfer of property and expressed sympathy with the student protesters.
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This policy was anunprecedentedmovetowards the recognition of indigenous rights and the important role of forest peoples in the conservation of the world's tropical rainforests.
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