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How to use the word unusually in a Sentence?

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This is an unusually high number of storms this winter in California, no matter how you slice it, no matter how you make these formal definitions, this is unusually many.

Daniel Swain

Found on CNN
8 days ago

It’s not an unusually high influenza season. It’s sort of falling in with the mid- to higher range, but it’s within the limits of what we normally expect to see during a regular flu season, unfortunately, so basically, this is looking like a typical flu season, except in terms of the timing. It was just a little bit earlier than normal.

Lynnette Brammer

Found on CNN
2 months ago

My plants are suffering, the animals, coyotes, rattlesnakes ; they are all out in droves. It's dry and unusually hot.

Doreen Jansen

Found on CNN
7 months ago

For most people, health care prices are not rising at an unusually fast rate right now, it is possible if inflation remains high that that will change.

Matthew Fiedler

Found on CNN
11 months ago

Nancy Brophy and Dan Brophy had an unusually healthy and vibrant and marriage, right up until the very end, after you've heard all the evidence in this case we are certain that you will understand that Nancy Brophy did not kill her husband.

Nancy Crampton-Brophy

Found on CNN
11 months ago

The important thing for Joe Biden -- and Joe Biden should come by this naturally, because Joe Biden's very good at this, unusually good for politicians -- is to speak to people about what's going on in their lives and give them a sense of understanding about what's going on in their lives without looking and trying too hard to tell them what a great job Joe Biden's doing, joe Biden needs to be the empathizer-in-chief.

David Axelrod

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We were just five minutes into the conversation when I knew I would offer her the job, she had an unusually mature and sophisticated view of the law and the role of the courts.

David Tatel

Found on CNN
1 year ago

She is unusually large and if we can get the public to hand in more spiders like her, it will only result in more lives being saved due to the huge amount of venom they can produce, we are really keen to find out where she came from in hopes to find more MASSIVE spiders like her.

Michael Tate

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We had unusually high moisture and a very, very strong weather system that came through.

Chuck Hodges

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It would be unusually risky to take the sort of actions that The Russians claims to have taken -- including dropping bombs in front of a foreign vessel, the Russians have been working to push the narrative that Royal Navy acted provocatively and was driven away -- which might be both for domestic consumption and to reinforce international perceptions of Russia's red lines.

Sidharth Kaushal

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Interest rates are unusually low, which means eventually there’s more scope for them to go up.

Tiff Macklem

Found on Reuters
1 year ago

The current interventions such as masking, etc., may be necessary for a prolonged time. This may serve to prolong the reduction in respiratory disease. It has been theorized, however, once these measures are reduced or eliminated, there may be a significant increase over historical numbers of these infections. That is, we may see unusually severe cold and flu seasons due to factors such as increase susceptibility to some of these diseases.

Henry Miller

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Flu activity is unusually low at this time but may increase in the coming months.

The CDC

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Like any legitimate business, attacking health and education sectors has proved to be profitable, they may also be softer targets. In the case of health care, they have unusually large attack surfaces spanning various networks and medical devices.

Brett Callow

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This meteorite shows a high diversity of organics, in that if somebody was interested in studying organics, this is not normally the type of meteorite that they would ask to look at, but because there was so much excitement surrounding it, everybody wanted to apply their own technique to it, so we have an unusually comprehensive set of data for a single meteorite.

Jennika Greer

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There was a little bit of a problem with the ice before I skated. Because of that, I was unusually nervous but I think I tried my best, i was disappointed (with my mistakes) but I will be able to prepare for the world championship by analyzing today's mistakes and I'd like to improve my skating to not repeat these mistakes in other competitions.

Yuzuru Hanyu

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The ocean was unusually salty at the surface, and that made the barrier to mixing a lot weaker.

Ethan Campbell

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The girl quoting the definitions before (pronouncer Jacques) Bailly said them stated the usage note from our unabridged dictionary verbatim. ... Its a very specific kind of writing that we do. I thought, Oh my goodness, this 13-year-old girl is quoting our dictionary back to us, these spellers as a group simply were unusually gifted. They may indicate that we have entered a new era of competition.

Peter Sokolowski

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We especially want to thank the administration, they really fought for us, unusually so, from the time you took office, I know that you've been engaged.

Andrew Brunson

Found on CNN
4 years ago

2017 was unusually calm, and we knew this calm wouldn’t last, eventually, the markets will go higher, but we will have more volatility.

Sameer Samana

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I have some major concerns about the credibility of this study, it is very unusually written. ... This paper also appears to have been published just one month after being received by the journal, which is an astoundingly short time that calls into question the quality of the peer-review process.

Kristina Dahl

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Adolescence is a time of tremendous stress and it seems like today’s teens have unusually high, often unreasonable, expectations for themselves, as a result, depression, anxiety and other mental health concerns are increasingly common as are maladaptive behaviors such as substance abuse, self-injury, eating disorders and other forms of unhealthy coping.

Bernard Biermann

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

The 16- to 30-day (forecast) is dry, it's favorable for row crop planting but unfavorable for wheat development, especially when you consider we've come off of this unusually dry winter for that part of the country.

Rich Feltes

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

( He) increased the turnout of young voters, it was unusually high. Same thing with independents. They were an unusually large share, 20 % of Iowa caucus-goers, and they went overwhelmingly well for Bernie Sanders.

The Atlantic Molly Ball

Found on CNN
7 years ago

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