extraordinary event

collocation in English

meaningsofextraordinaryandevent

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extraordinary
adjective
uk
/ɪkˈstrɔː.dɪn.ər.i/us
/ɪkˈstrɔːr.dən.er.i/
very unusual, special, unexpected, ...
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event
noun[C]
uk
/ɪˈvent/us
/ɪˈvent/
anything that happens, especially something important ...
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(Definition ofextraordinaryandeventfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Seen from today, when so many things have happened since, his approach and the survey of his discoveries seem anextraordinaryeventthat marked and even shocked his environment.
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However, the political witnesses to thisextraordinaryeventcoupled their sympathy with the strike and its contextualization in their general logic of labor politics in the country.
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We were temporarily stunned by thisextraordinaryevent.
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It was anextraordinaryeventto me at the time.
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Some very grave doubts were expressed as to the manner in which thisextraordinaryeventwas achieved.
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Anextraordinaryeventsuch as this surely justifies the provision of help.
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I merely said that it would be anextraordinaryeventif we allowed him to dictate the course of action we take in foreign affairs.
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There can be one of three explanations why thisextraordinaryeventtook place.
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In the meantime anextraordinaryeventhappened.
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This was, and is, anextraordinaryevent.
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It has been anextraordinaryevent.
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Worley was soon donned the event guru and budget specialist, known to turn any ordinary event into anextraordinaryevent.
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Usually such a sentence was carried out without delay but in this instance anextraordinaryeventcomplicated matters.
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The album sold fifty thousand copies in one day, being considered anextraordinaryevent.
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Anextraordinaryeventis occurring; hearts are uniting in a common feeling of joy.
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What made this anextraordinaryeventwas that the spirit communicated through audible rapping noises, rather than simply appearing to a person in a trance.
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He propagated theextraordinaryeventand many people went to see for themselves what the ermitao was telling.
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What made this anextraordinaryeventwas that the spirit communicated through rapping noises, audible to onlookers.
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Included here are the electoral calendar, extraordinary events and the policies a government adopts and maintains.
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