extraordinary feat

collocation in English

meaningsofextraordinaryandfeat

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extraordinary
adjective
uk
/ɪkˈstrɔː.dɪn.ər.i/us
/ɪkˈstrɔːr.dən.er.i/
very unusual, special, unexpected, ...
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feat
noun[C]
uk
/fiːt/us
/fiːt/
something difficult needing a lot of skill, strength, courage, etc. to ...
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(Definition ofextraordinaryandfeatfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The penetration of that land mine-field was anextraordinaryfeat.
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Without exception, it is a mostextraordinaryfeatof organisation to which too little recognition has been given.
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At its height, just before its closure, it was carrying a volume of only about 1,000 cars, which was anextraordinaryfeatfor that technology.
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It was anextraordinaryfeat.
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The latter achieved theextraordinaryfeatof winning the race seven times in successive years from 1993 to 1999.
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In his first term 17 of his bills were signed into law, anextraordinaryfeatfor a freshman legislator.
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The first character boasts of anextraordinaryfeat, while the second character says he was just hungry or just wanted one.
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To make thisextraordinaryfeatpossible, the mature aperture of the shell is aligned in the same plane as the rather low spire of the shell.
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To describe the grammars, and initiate the lexical descriptions, of three such disparate languages is anextraordinaryfeat; very much more to be the first to do so.
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He had exceptionally long fingers and was capable of playing three octaves across four strings in a hand span, anextraordinaryfeateven by today's standards.
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Dummer's draughts constitute anextraordinaryfeatof surveyorship.
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What seems to have been involved in building these temples was a mastery of recondite knowledge in order to accomplish extraordinary feats of power and domination.
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Asakura is a talented magician and has demonstrated the capacity to perform extraordinary feats of skill.
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He could also perform extraordinary feats of agility on horseback, being able to pick up from the ground handkerchiefs while going at full speed.
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In years to come, 2013 will be fondly remembered for a series of extraordinary feats.
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She was not remarkable for any unique gait nor for extraordinary feats of courage, but she was very loyal.
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Tradition relates the most extraordinary feats of strength performed by him.
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The passes were cut and the routes completed in the next few years, comprising one of the era's most extraordinary feats of engineering.
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Bolstered with tensioned fascia, people are able to perform extraordinary feats of strength and speed under emergency conditions.
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Binet concluded that extraordinary feats of memory such as blind chess playing could take a variety of mnemonic forms.
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