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Frost is not unusual, but such a widespread effect across nearly all major wine regions is extraordinary. Dave Mcintyre, Washington Post, 19 Jan. Viking period, have been found in Scandinavia alone. Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Jan. The case is unusual because most class-action securities lawsuits are either dismissed or settled out of court. Rob Wile, NBC News, 18 Jan.

Yet his posts were not unusual for a right-wing social-media user, blending into an online discourse often punctuated by violent threats. Unsettlingly, experiencing your first kiss for a role isn’t that unusual for a child actor. Adoptions of Afghan children in the U. Virginia was unusual given the details of Baby Doe’s case, ABC News legal analyst Channa Lloyd said.

Luis Martinez, ABC News, 14 Jan. The blasts occurred before air sirens sounded, which is unusual. Sylvia Hui And Hanna Arhirova, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. Hawaiian Airlines Chief Operating Officer Jon Snook said at the time that such turbulence is unusual, noting that the airline had not experienced anything like it in recent history. Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, Fortune, 14 Jan.

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