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  • adjective undreamed-of

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  • Sure, one could argue that the industrial economy and industrial-age institutions brought us centuries of unprecedented productivity, knowledge accumulation and innovation that resulted in undreamt-of wealth and prosperity.

    Don Tapscott: Macrowikinomics : The Choice Between Atrophy or Renaissance Don Tapscott 2010

  • In fact, progressive values allow us the best opportunity to survive and succeed in the future world that is simultaneously bristling with unprecedented danger and beckoning with undreamt-of opportunity for our children and future generations -- if we go there together.

    Robert Creamer: 10-2-10 Rally Gives Progressives a Chance to Stand Up Straight Robert Creamer 2010

  • I knew him to be strange, yet this was an undreamt-of facet of the unnatural and the bizarre.

    The Monstrumologist William James Henry 2009

  • I knew him to be strange, yet this was an undreamt-of facet of the unnatural and the bizarre.

    The Monstrumologist William James Henry 2009

  • There is potential for suffering on a scale undreamt-of, and for very much longer than a normal lifespan.

    Analytic and Synthetic Brains Zoe Brain 2008

  • Paradoxically, whereas globalization has opened up previously undreamt-of vistas in terms of communication, discovery and contacts with others, the justified fear that this great planetary shift sometimes arouses is increasingly leading people to raise barriers.

    Moving Beyond Fear: 2007

  • Nevertheless, just as Americans who have second homes and servants find a way to identify as “middle class,” expressing an affinity and a personal comfort zone more than the sum of a financial calculation, some of us—uncannily, both Tillie Olsen and myself—identify as “working class” even though our lives have brought us resources and opportunities undreamt-of by our forebears.

    Ideas of Class 2007

  • Let me see, in that time frame, the US have played a pivotal role in the collpase of communism, thus freeing hundreds of millions of people from totalitarian oppression; they have fuelled and led the internet technology boom and thus the globalisation of markets, which has opened up undreamt-of opportuinies for personal growth and prosperity for millions of Chinese, Indians, and indirectly even Africans and Latin-Americans.

    Cameron & the US 2007

  • There is potential for suffering on a scale undreamt-of, and for very much longer than a normal lifespan.

    Sensational Stuff Zoe Brain 2006

  • There is potential for suffering on a scale undreamt-of, and for very much longer than a normal lifespan.

    Archive 2006-08-01 Zoe Brain 2006

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