unusual event
collocation in Englishmeaningsofunusualandevent
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unusual
adjective
uk/ʌnˈjuː.ʒu.əl/us/ʌnˈjuː.ʒu.əl/
different from others of the same type in a way that is surprising, interesting, ...
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event
noun[C]
uk/ɪˈvent/us/ɪˈvent/
anything that happens, especially something important ...
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(Definition ofunusualandeventfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Also, patients appreciated theunusualeventthat the hospital was interested in their well-being afterward.
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The large number of attendees made the event a powerful demonstration of discontent, and the newspapers reported theunusualeventon their first page.
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This is a veryunusualeventfor a university press book.
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Thus, the germination process is anunusualeventin the life cycle of a plant because it represents a binomial as opposed to a graduated response to the environment.
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Wittgenstein points to the fact that we can regard the mostunusualeventas ' nothing of any consequence ',20 as a mere anomaly.
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Yet this is not such anunusualeventbecause, in effect, the calendar reflects what we have always done; there are no particular changes.
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Of course, that is anunusualeventand perhaps we should celebrate it on its own.
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I understand that this would be a veryunusualevent.
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It is anunusualevent, certainly since 1979.
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Too much praise might go to their heads too quickly and it is such anunusualeventthat we do not want to repeat it.
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It is not a veryunusualeventnowadays for a builder to plan to set up 300 small houses.
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If there has been any hitch orunusualeventthe fact must, of course, be stated, and a full explanation given.
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That is anunusualeventin the last 20 or 30 years.
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I wish to refer to a somewhatunusualeventwhich has taken place in the last few days.
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The judge relied on a well- established legal interpretation of the term "accident" as an unexpected orunusualeventor happening that is external to the passenger.
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That is not such anunusualevent.
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It is also a veryunusualevent.
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This is anunusualevent.
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This, too, is a veryunusualevent.
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This marked anunusualeventof such an early storm formation.
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