unthought-of
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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For Kentridge, attachment to a great idea can lead to entrapment, closing your mind to other, unthought-of fertile ideas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2025
Putin's 27-day long incursion into Ukraine has forced more than 3.5 million to flee, brought the unprecedented isolation of Russia's economy, and raised fears of wider conflict in the West unthought-of for decades.
From Reuters ● Mar. 22, 2022
But first, “he needed to determine what income threshold would capture people who were experiencing a level of destitution so deep as to be unthought-of in America.”
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2019
They seemed to enjoy their unthought-of role in the art world, and to be happy to stay there.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 8, 2016
But what secret trouble rises in my soul, what unthought-of motion opposes the resolution I formed of sighing no more for Abelard?
From Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix?d a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Bayle, Pierre
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