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Example Sentences
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Atkin has been fortunate in that she has avoided serious injuries, unlike her sister who broke her pelvis just before the 2022 Winter Olympics and has since retired from competitive skiing.
From BBC
The latest shutdown will prove far less disruptive, because unlike the six-week closure that began in October, the partial shutdown this week was too brief to cause serious interruptions to the government’s data-collection efforts.
And unlike Laura, who’d had surgery and chemo and now radiation to get better, his mom hadn’t even stayed in the hospital even though she would lose him if she left.
From Literature
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He was almost sullen, which was very unlike him, but I understood now why he’d been quieter than usual.
From Literature
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Performers’ sets would be in English, unlike most of Bad Bunny’s material.
From Los Angeles Times
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