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matchless

American  
[mach-lis] / ˈmætʃ lɪs /

adjective

  1. having no equal; peerless; unequaled; incomparable.

    matchless courage.


matchless British  
/ ˈmætʃlɪs /

adjective

  1. unequalled; incomparable; peerless

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of matchless

First recorded in 1520–30; match 2 + -less

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Arendt would later write with matchless severity about statelessness and the “right to have rights”; here those abstractions acquire a prehistory in German-Jewish arrangements that proved disastrously brittle.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

It’s fair to say that the valley’s matchless terrain and fragile ecosystem would have been logged, plowed and plundered without their relentless efforts.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 30, 2023

There, he is both power broker and matchless one-man repository of institutional memory.

From Washington Post Mar. 3, 2023

The matchless pairing of performer and part — both Fanny and Barbra were self-deprecating singers with outsize dreams — sent Streisand into the showbiz stratosphere.

From New York Times Feb. 23, 2022

One senses Madison's matchless political savvy at work throughout the process, but also a preview of Jefferson’s defiantly bold behavior thirteen years later in pushing through the Louisiana Purchase.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

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