extraordinary thing

collocation in English

meaningsofextraordinaryandthing

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extraordinary
adjective
uk
/ɪkˈstrɔː.dɪn.ər.i/us
/ɪkˈstrɔːr.dən.er.i/
very unusual, special, unexpected, ...
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thing
noun
uk
/θɪŋ/us
/θɪŋ/
used to refer in an approximate way to an object or to avoid ...
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(Definition ofextraordinaryandthingfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofextraordinary thing

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The mostextraordinarything, indeed, about that extraordinary man is the tenacity of his survival in the minds and memories of those who knew him.
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Although there can be no doubting the expense of the council's training programme, theextraordinarythingis its relative infrequency.
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They came across as people who had lived ordinary lives but were now doing anextraordinarythingby performing these lives.
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Theextraordinarythingwas that they had one factor in common.
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They would have led a listener to believe, that he had done anextraordinarything.
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I think that this is anextraordinarythingto suggest.
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But theextraordinarythingabout this urgency is that nothing has been done.
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Oneextraordinarythingabout mental hospitals is that they are all very large.
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That seems to me the mostextraordinarythingto happen.
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The first is that it is a mostextraordinarything.
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It is anextraordinarythingthat no answer to the debate should have been put up.
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What anextraordinarythingthat would be for a trading continent to do!
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It would be anextraordinarythingif it were not.
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That seems to me a mostextraordinarything.
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I am making no comparison, but it is, nevertheless, anextraordinarything.
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A somewhatextraordinarythingwas brought to my notice the other day.
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Our rates have nearly doubled in the period, and this is a mostextraordinarything.
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I think this is rather anextraordinarythingto have done.
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It would be a veryextraordinarything— would it not?
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