singular
Example Sentences
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On the credit side, he had the sort of parents who encouraged him to be singular and, as Ms. Newman puts it, “exegetical.”
Visitors to the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami are given an introduction to this singular process in “Masaomi Yasunaga: Traces of Memory,” the artist’s first major U.S. museum exhibition.
She was one of the great, singular, unflinching writers of her generation, which included Joan Didion, in relation to whom she had an equal or superior level of talent without the promotional ability.
He later called this “a singular act of presumption,” writing, “I knew almost nothing about the anatomy of disaster, the ways of Appalachia, or anything else that could qualify me as an expert.”
If the Mayer isn’t quite a singular remnant of a bygone era — there’s probably a surviving small-town movie theater somewhere near you — it can sure feel that way.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
