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sui generis soo-ee JE-nuh-ruhs adjective unique; in a class of its own 19761876Oh, maybe your first Romans were like us, but I doubt it. No, sir. We are sui generis—of our own kind.1979The Right StuffThe seven pilots and their wives thought they had seen every sort of parade there was, but this one was sui generis.1987To Sail Beyond the SunsetRandom Numbers may have been the silliest cat I've ever lived with—although all cats are sui generis… Labels: Gore Vidal, Robert A. Heinlein, Tom Wolfe
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