exceptionally

exceptional | American Dictionary

exceptional
adjective
us/ɪkˈsep·ʃə·nəl/
not like most others of the same type; unusual:
This is an exceptional contract, guaranteeing no layoffs.
Exceptional also means unusually good:
Davis has done an exceptional job of reporting.

exceptionally

adverbus/ɪkˈsep·ʃə·nəl·i/
The drawing had exceptionally fine detail.

exceptional | Business English

exceptional
adjective
uk /ɪkˈsepʃənəl/us
unusual; not what happens regularly or is expected:
The industry is anxious to stress that this is an exceptional case.
These are exceptional circumstances.
in exceptional circumstances/casesThis right to sell the shares will apply only in exceptional cases.
A £2.5m exceptional charge from redundancies contributed to full-year losses.
exceptional costs
much greater or better than usual:
The effort put in by the team over the last five days has been exceptional.
Her leadership style produced exceptional results.

exceptionally

adverb
The quality of our products is exceptionally high.
an exceptionally competitive marketplace

Examples of exceptional

exceptional
Eight building phases on a single farmyard are exceptional, but three or four overlapping ground plans are quite common.
Purely indefinite readings appear to be more exceptional, yet in some contexts they provide a plausible interpretation of a given gerund construction.
Both are lost to the ideological ' construction' of selfhood, exceptional or otherwise.
In particular, we shall argue that time-independent intermediate shocks can exist in the real world, but are exceptional.
The foreign learners were relatively accurate at categorizing regular words but extremely inaccurate at categorizing exceptional words.
But in economic history, as we know, works of this character are exceptional.
In fact, exceptional creative achievers are most likely to come from family pedigrees that display elevated rates of various psychological disorders.
Despite exceptional recent research progress in understanding elastic-fibre assembly and function, many questions remain to be addressed.
Masked exercises, which to us seem completely normal, were at that time exceptional.
Analysts are bewildered by the exceptional endurance exhibited by most democratic administrations.
As we show, this exceptional development is determined by the ways in which mobile phones have been adapted to the local conditions of everyday life.
His age and ability indicate that the experience of provincial leadership is, in the exceptional case, viable politically.
These results speak to the outliers found in such research, exceptional learners whose abilities we scarcely understand.
Taking regular individualised lessons in what might be regarded as the usual fashion for instrument tuition was exceptional for these learners.
These exceptional quality crystals introduce negligible aberration into the frequency doubled beam.
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