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- adjective
undreamed-of
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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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There is potential for suffering on a scale undreamt-of, and for very much longer than a normal lifespan.
Sensational Stuff Zoe Brain 2006
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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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