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The Patriots won that game in overtime after trailing 28–3 in the second half, a comeback that allowed New Englanders to achieve levels of insufferable self-importance unapproached since the late 1700s.

From Slate • Feb. 1, 2019

Miss Dunham has a well-nigh unapproached knowledge of the exotic dances of the West Indies and the Caribbean, which she has recreated in forms of her own.

From Time Magazine Archive

He has produced a body of writing whose size and consistent high quality are unapproached by the work of any American writer near his age, except Norman Mailer.

From Time Magazine Archive

To an extent, I think, unapproached elsewhere, they are, and they always have been, a bookish people.

From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Bostwick, Arthur Elmore

Then, again, the fact that they were content to leave him unapproached in his captivity puzzled and disquieted him even more.

From The Son of his Father by Cullum, Ridgwell