extraordinary
adjective
beyond what is usual, ordinary, regular, or established.
extraordinariness
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a word derived from
extraordinary.
Example Sentences
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But it’s the way she employs her gaze in that Last Supper monologue and every moment of “The Penguin” that captures the extraordinariness of a little-known character in the “Batman” universe.
From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2024
“The extraordinariness of it escaped you because it always does when you’re living through something. It’s only afterwards, when you look at little patches of your life, that you realize that it was absolutely insane.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 5, 2023
The film draws much from the tension between their middle-aged ordinary-joe-ness and the extraordinariness of their heroism.
From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2021
Now, this extraordinariness doesn’t mean that the possibility shouldn’t be considered.
From Slate ● May 29, 2021
Most extraordinary in its ordinariness, and most ordinary in its extraordinariness.
From In Her Own Right by Clarence F. Underwood
