How to Use unitary in a Sentence

unitary

adjective
  • In everyday life, events can’t help but play out in a unitary way.
    — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The crowd, which had been cheering Trump up to that point, suddenly lost its unitary glee.
    — Nicole Hemmer, CNN, 26 Aug. 2021
  • These weapons are now known as unitary weapons to distinguish them from cluster munitions.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 4 May 2023
  • The clear-eyed choice is not between the Deep State and the unitary executive.
    — Stephen I. Vladeck, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2021
  • In the case of a certain type of gravitational wave, the group found that unitary three-point functions are few and far between.
    — Quanta Magazine, 10 Nov. 2021
  • No timeline was given Wednesday as to when the district could attain unitary status.
    — Trisha Powell Crain | [email protected], al, 6 July 2022
  • One reason is that gay and trans rights doesn’t describe a single, unitary political movement.
    — Laurie Marhoefer, Quartz, 20 June 2019
  • The viral pandemic has given the lie to systems in countries around the world that are federal on paper but unitary in fact.
    — Nick Burns, National Review, 2 Apr. 2020
  • Now, the Supreme Court hasn't weighed in on the extent of this unitary executive theory.
    — Robert Costa, CBS News, 23 Feb. 2025
  • Whether and how the two come together may determine whether this sample, one-ninth of a unitary work, has staying power beyond the class-reunion phase.
    — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 21 May 2017
  • Here, the Golden State said that this screenwriter ran a unitary operation.
    — Robert W. Wood, Forbes, 7 July 2022
  • This is not a unitary polity, where the president decides for everyone, but 50 sovereign states that joined in union.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 9 Feb. 2025
  • If the court is satisfied with the facility upgrades, the school districts will be fully unitary and released from oversight.
    — Cynthia Howell, Arkansas Online, 11 May 2021
  • The package included 2 million 155mm artillery rounds, some of which Kahl said were unitary.
    — Missy Ryan, Washington Post, 8 July 2023
  • The unitary variant carries a 200-pound high-explosive warhead.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 13 Apr. 2026
  • For many, India is just too vast and various ever to succumb to some unitary nationalist diktat.
    — Roger Cohen, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Jan. 2023
  • And as in the physical world, in the digital world there should not be one single town square, no single, unitary nonprofit Facebook clone.
    — WIRED, 28 Oct. 2022
  • That clearly was not the case, even though, of course, several of the opinions tilted in favor of the strong unitary executive theory.
    — John E. Jones Iii, The Conversation, 1 July 2026
  • The conservatives have been pushing the unitary executive agenda for decades.
    — Noah Feldman, Twin Cities, 24 Dec. 2025
  • These issues are best addressed one at a time rather than lumped together into a single, unitary response to the current mass hysteria about vaping.
    — The Editors, National Review, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Would a unitary executive affect the FCC?
    — Erin Mansfield, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
  • These ultracold atom clouds are actually closer to being a unitary gas than neutron star matter, so the analogy isn’t perfect.
    — Matthew Smith, Ars Technica, 8 July 2023
  • China has a unitary, top-down system in which regulations are promulgated from Beijing.
    — Frank Lavin, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2021
  • If the motion is approved, Shelby County will join a handful of other districts to recently seek unitary status.
    — al, 19 July 2022
  • Gamma has even been proposed as the mechanism by which the brain ‘binds’ information from different brain areas into a unitary consciousness.
    — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2019
  • This question has a beautiful formulation called the unitary synthesis problem.
    — Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 17 Feb. 2026
  • In the absence of the simple, unitary goal—the Oval Office—that has always pulled her and her allies forward, charting a new course is much more complicated.
    — William D. Cohan, The Hive, 10 Apr. 2017
  • The Jacksonville/North Pulaski School District was declared unitary last month.
    — Dmitry Martirosov, Arkansas Online, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Christianity also shares a certain kind of internal division with Hinduism, over whether and in what ways the godhead is unitary or multiple.
    — Andrew Stark, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2018
  • Some of those decisions aligned with some unitary executive claims, but others directly repudiated them.
    — Graham G. Dodds, The Conversation, 30 June 2026

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