without parallel
idiom
: better than all others
a masterpiece without parallel in the history of art
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Bumgarner’s run in the 2014 postseason — one that ended with five scoreless innings in Game 7 — is without parallel in the 21st century.
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Justice Delos Santos, The Mercury News, 1 Jan. 2025
The result is a Chinese mercantilist authoritarian model without parallel in the West.
—Calder Walton, Foreign Affairs, 19 July 2023
There is also the more pragmatic concern, one that has thrust the American theater into a crisis without parallel.
—Peter Marks, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
While Hamas and Islamic Jihad have routinely used a range of crude and sophisticated rockets to target Israel, the scale and scope of Saturday’s barrage was without parallel.
—Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2023
In recent years, the United States has supplied a steady drumbeat of stories about mass shootings, police brutality, and urban unrest—a degree of chaos and violence without parallel in China.
—Wang Jisi, Foreign Affairs, 22 June 2021
Nebraska logged the lowest unemployment rate of any state on record in October, reflecting the acute labor shortages that have quickly swept across the nation amid an economic recovery that is without parallel.
—Sarah Chaney Cambon, WSJ, 20 Nov. 2021
While doing important work, the team does not have the capacity and resources to address the nature, severity and scale of human rights violations in North Korea, a state without parallel.
—Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2021
In his view, the fixation on an artifact that is without parallel is the biggest problem with this dispute.
—New York Times, 19 Jan. 2021
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Justice Delos Santos, The Mercury News, 1 Jan. 2025
The result is a Chinese mercantilist authoritarian model without parallel in the West.
—Calder Walton, Foreign Affairs, 19 July 2023
There is also the more pragmatic concern, one that has thrust the American theater into a crisis without parallel.
—Peter Marks, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
While Hamas and Islamic Jihad have routinely used a range of crude and sophisticated rockets to target Israel, the scale and scope of Saturday’s barrage was without parallel.
—Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2023
In recent years, the United States has supplied a steady drumbeat of stories about mass shootings, police brutality, and urban unrest—a degree of chaos and violence without parallel in China.
—Wang Jisi, Foreign Affairs, 22 June 2021
Nebraska logged the lowest unemployment rate of any state on record in October, reflecting the acute labor shortages that have quickly swept across the nation amid an economic recovery that is without parallel.
—Sarah Chaney Cambon, WSJ, 20 Nov. 2021
While doing important work, the team does not have the capacity and resources to address the nature, severity and scale of human rights violations in North Korea, a state without parallel.
—Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2021
In his view, the fixation on an artifact that is without parallel is the biggest problem with this dispute.
—New York Times, 19 Jan. 2021
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“Without parallel.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/without%20parallel. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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