How to Use unheard-of in a Sentence
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That’s far from unheard-of on the iOS app store, and wouldn’t be surprising on the Vision Pro at all.
—Wes Davis, The Verge, 23 July 2023
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Riding of deer by the monkeys of Yakushima Island is rare, but not unheard-of.
—Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 31 Aug. 2023
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At that time, the concept of openly gay parents was mostly unheard-of in the culture at large.
—Alex Williams, BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2023
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At that time, the concept of openly gay parents was still mostly unheard-of in the culture at large.
—Alex Williams, New York Times, 23 July 2023
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This prompted the businessman to open a bakery inside the grocery store, an unheard-of idea at the time.
—Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 26 June 2023
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Not so long ago, Kobayashi tells me, treehouses were almost unheard-of in Japan.
—Tom Vanderbilt Josh Robenstone, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
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The Ukrainians, in fact, were expending artillery shells at an unheard-of rate.
—Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
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Up to that point in the South, a Black witness identifying white defendants in court was unheard-of.
—Lucy McKeon, New York Times, 3 June 2024
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Long medical absences are not unheard-of in the Senate.
—Annie Karni, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2023
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Louis Cartier named her the director of artistic design in 1933, an unheard-of post for a woman at that time.
—Anthony Demarco, Forbes, 2 Apr. 2023
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Electoral inscriptions in the bakery hint that buying votes was not unheard-of.
—Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024
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In its first season, the operation had an unheard-of 90 percent fly rate.
—Jen Murphy, Robb Report, 3 Feb. 2024
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Such a diagnosis is not unheard-of, some cancer experts not involved in the king’s care say.
—Mark Landler, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2024
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Such a diagnosis is not unheard-of, some cancer experts not involved in the king’s care say.
—Mark Landler, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2024
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Scenes of the most desperate people trawling through bins for food — once unheard-of — shocked the majority of Greeks who struggled to make ends meet.
—Niki Kitsantonis, New York Times, 24 June 2023
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Apparently, this isn't an unheard-of problem, based on comments on her post.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 9 Dec. 2023
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That’s basically an unheard-of perk for Gen X and younger Americans.
—Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2024
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The trail finally opened in early February, an unheard-of delay, with six inches of ice.
—Joanna Slater, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Feb. 2023
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His direct criticism of the military was unheard-of in Pakistan.
—Christina Goldbaum, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2024
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The ensuing weekend gave way to additional tracks from each artist, bringing the total to an unheard-of nine tracks of back-and-forth wordplay in roughly 6 weeks.
—Rivea Ruff, Essence, 7 May 2024
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Again, all this is just research, and for all of it to work well starting this spring would be a legitimately unheard-of technical achievement.
—David Pierce, The Verge, 5 May 2024
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The result is more voluminous lashes that are long-wearing and dramatic—at an unheard-of $5 price point.
—Stephanie Osmanski, Southern Living, 14 Feb. 2024
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Its usual way moves in with a privacy that rips out plantings ragged and diseased a leap exhilarating away in unheard-of petals.
—Christopher Tayler, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
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The Treasury market was melting down, so the central bank bought government debt in previously unheard-of sums.
—Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2023
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The airline said they were informed by experts that bee swarms like this are unusual but not unheard-of, and extended an apology to the 92 passengers aboard for the delay.
—Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 4 May 2023
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Right now, discover unheard-of markdowns at your favorite fragrance houses, like Maison Margiela, Creed, Valentino, and more.
—Jenny Berg, Vogue, 27 Nov. 2023
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Customers wishing rape or death on Amazon customer service employees is now not unheard-of.
—Seamus Webster, Fortune, 6 June 2024
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Women were allowed to go to soccer stadiums with men, national day parties were held outdoors on streets with music and dancing, unheard-of before the MBS era.
—Nic Robertson, CNN, 12 June 2023
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The paper showed that people taking the drug lost on average 15 percent of their body weight—a level of weight loss practically unheard-of for an anti-obesity medicine.
—Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 7 July 2023
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The Lucid team had to not only make Sapphire stand out with unheard-of performance numbers but also give it daily drivability.
—Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 8 Aug. 2023
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