unprecedented
never having happened or existed before
Word origin: From Latin praecedere, to go before.
Unprecedented in a sentence
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The storm caused damage on an unprecedented scale.
The flooding reached an unprecedented level, exceeding every measurement in the station's century of records.
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Critics initially dismissed the composer's late works as merely blank, but later scholars recognized in them a deliberate restraint that concealed considerable technical sophistication.
Using “unprecedented” well
Unprecedented means never having happened or existed before, stressing the absence of any earlier example. It is the opposite of routine or customary.
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