Definition of "unprecedented" []

• Having no previous example: unprecedented economic growth. (adjective)

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• "The word "unprecedented" really does not adequately describe the Fed's intervention to rescue financial institutions."
• "House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers praised the administration for winning what he called "unprecedented" international cooperation in going after Libya."
• "Al-Jazeera also said its journalists' equipment had been stolen and destroyed during more than a week of unrest and it had faced what it called unprecedented levels of interference in its broadcast signal across the Arab world."