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extraordinary

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1. extraordinary - Noun

2. extraordinary - Adjective

3. extraordinary - Adjective Satellite

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Beyond or out of the common order or method; not usual, customary, regular, or ordinary; as, extraordinary evils; extraordinary remedies.

Exceeding the common degree, measure. or condition; hence, remarkable; uncommon; rare; wonderful; as, extraordinary talents or grandeur.

Employed or sent upon an unusual or special service; as, an ambassador extraordinary.

That which is extraordinary; -- used especially in the plural; as, extraordinaries excepted, there is nothing to prevent success.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment - that which they cannot anticipate. Sun Tzu

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. Elbert Hubbard

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it. Robertson Davies

How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit. V. S. Pritchett

The highest art is the art of living an ordinary life in an extraordinary manner. Tibetan Proverb

There's only 2 ways: go cracy, or go extraordinary. Myanmar Proverb

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