extraordinary

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The fund said it is pulling back on some large investments including Neom—the planned desert city where megasize aspirations and sci-fi architecture led to extraordinary costs—and pinning hopes on outside investment for other ventures.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026

I mean, you’ll think of someone like S. E. Hinton who wrote this extraordinary quartet of books, but then really stopped writing.

From Slate • Apr. 18, 2026

“We invite you to join us on this extraordinary journey through a technological revolution more profound than any that has come before,” Cerebras said in its S-1 filing.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 17, 2026

The rollout of Covid vaccines – the largest immunisation programme in UK history - was an "extraordinary feat" which saved hundreds of thousands of lives, the Covid inquiry says.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026

And yet Galileo realized, not only that ice was lighter than water, but also—it must have been an extraordinary shock—that bodies often float without displacing their own weight in water.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton