How to Use unitary in a Sentence

unitary

adjective
  • In everyday life, events can’t help but play out in a unitary way.
    Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The crowd, which had been cheering Trump up to that point, suddenly lost its unitary glee.
    Nicole Hemmer, CNN, 26 Aug. 2021
  • The United States is not a unitary actor in cyberspace.
    The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 13 Mar. 2017
  • In the case of a certain type of gravitational wave, the group found that unitary three-point functions are few and far between.
    Quanta Magazine, 10 Nov. 2021
  • The package included 2 million 155mm artillery rounds, some of which Kahl said were unitary.
    Missy Ryan, Washington Post, 8 July 2023
  • The viral pandemic has given the lie to systems in countries around the world that are federal on paper but unitary in fact.
    Nick Burns, National Review, 2 Apr. 2020
  • These weapons are now known as unitary weapons to distinguish them from cluster munitions.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 4 May 2023
  • No timeline was given Wednesday as to when the district could attain unitary status.
    Trisha Powell Crain | Tcrain@al.com, al, 6 July 2022
  • In the absence of the simple, unitary goal—the Oval Office—that has always pulled her and her allies forward, charting a new course is much more complicated.
    William D. Cohan, The Hive, 10 Apr. 2017
  • Whether and how the two come together may determine whether this sample, one-ninth of a unitary work, has staying power beyond the class-reunion phase.
    James Poniewozik, New York Times, 21 May 2017
  • And as in the physical world, in the digital world there should not be one single town square, no single, unitary nonprofit Facebook clone.
    WIRED, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The North Little Rock district was declared unitary in December 2011.
    Cynthia Howell, Arkansas Online, 11 May 2021
  • Here, the Golden State said that this screenwriter ran a unitary operation.
    Robert W. Wood, Forbes, 7 July 2022
  • If the court is satisfied with the facility upgrades, the school districts will be fully unitary and released from oversight.
    Cynthia Howell, Arkansas Online, 11 May 2021
  • Indeed, according to Anne’s biography, her young son understood the idea of the unitary...
    WSJ, 14 June 2017
  • One reason is that gay and trans rights doesn’t describe a single, unitary political movement.
    Laurie Marhoefer, Quartz, 20 June 2019
  • Is a movie still a unitary visual and aural experience undertaken with a group of strangers in a darkened theater?
    Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2023
  • If the motion is approved, Shelby County will join a handful of other districts to recently seek unitary status.
    al, 19 July 2022
  • For many, India is just too vast and various ever to succumb to some unitary nationalist diktat.
    Roger Cohen, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Jan. 2023
  • States were considered unitary actors with set interests, but this left out the internal pressures placed on the government of a modern nation-state.
    Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2022
  • While it’s spread a little less thinly, the season’s end still has far too many characters to feel unitary and pointed, and the Duffers still seem a little hesitant to axe major legacy characters once and for all.
    Jeff Ewing, Forbes, 1 July 2022
  • These issues are best addressed one at a time rather than lumped together into a single, unitary response to the current mass hysteria about vaping.
    The Editors, National Review, 17 Sep. 2019
  • This can easily be achieved by normal unitary evolution.
    Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 16 Nov. 2011
  • Christianity also shares a certain kind of internal division with Hinduism, over whether and in what ways the godhead is unitary or multiple.
    Andrew Stark, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2018
  • These ultracold atom clouds are actually closer to being a unitary gas than neutron star matter, so the analogy isn’t perfect.
    Matthew Smith, Ars Technica, 8 July 2023
  • Gamma has even been proposed as the mechanism by which the brain ‘binds’ information from different brain areas into a unitary consciousness.
    Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2019
  • Welshpool is a town in Wales, historically in the county of Montgomeryshire, but currently administered as part of the unitary authority of Powys.
    Brianna Wiest, Teen Vogue, 2 July 2018
  • The passage also may seem to suggest that the vice president was given the same authority as the president, but of course the United States government has a unitary executive, not a binary one.
    James Freeman, WSJ, 24 Jan. 2023
  • China has a unitary, top-down system in which regulations are promulgated from Beijing.
    Frank Lavin, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Garland County school districts are the only remaining districts in the state to not reach full unitary status, and are subject to probation under the Arkansas Department of Education.
    Brandon Smith, arkansasonline.com, 19 Nov. 2023

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