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Unmatched   /ənmˈætʃt/   Listen
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adjective
1.
Of the remaining member of a pair, of socks e.g..  Synonyms: odd, unmated, unpaired.
2.
Eminent beyond or above comparison.  Synonyms: matchless, nonpareil, one, one and only, peerless, unmatchable, unrivaled, unrivalled.  "The team's nonpareil center fielder" , "She's one girl in a million" , "The one and only Muhammad Ali" , "A peerless scholar" , "Infamy unmatched in the Western world" , "Wrote with unmatchable clarity" , "Unrivaled mastery of her art"






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... sense of it"), every generation extends the list of the classical, and includes much which the preceding one found imperfect and strained. So far as our knowledge and experience have yet gone, however, there is a sense in which the productions of these great masters are likely to remain long unmatched in ...
— A Popular History of the Art of Music - From the Earliest Times Until the Present • W. S. B. Mathews

... too, brought out conspicuously the sterling courage and unmatched steadiness of the English artillery. Repeatedly were the Russian columns close to the muzzles of the guns, and were driven back by volleys of case. In some instances the batteries were actually run into, and the gunners bayoneted at their posts. Their carriages were ...
— Our Soldiers - Gallant Deeds of the British Army during Victoria's Reign • W.H.G. Kingston

... O'Reilly,[1690] suggested to the Senator on the evening before he spoke, caught the convention as quickly as did Ingersoll's opening sentences in 1876, and all that followed, save his sarcasm and flashes of scorn, held the closest attention. "His unmatched eloquence," said Brandegee of Connecticut.[1691] This was the judgment of an opponent. "It had the warmth of eulogy, the finish of a poem, the force and fire of a philippic," said the Inter-Ocean.[1692] This was the judgment of a friend. All the art of which he was master found expression ...
— A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 • DeAlva Stanwood Alexander

... wealth and expand freedom is unmatched, but this crisis has reminded us that without a watchful eye, the market can spin out of control, the nation cannot prosper long when it favors only ...
— Inaugural Presidential Address - Contributed Transcripts • Barack Hussein Obama

... colony; there is no place from which they are bad; and yet for a certain tragical sunset, where the dying day bleeds slowly into the channel till it is filled from shore to shore with red as far as the eye can reach, the river is unmatched. ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells


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