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• Denoting the least likely or expected example.

  ‘Jordan, of all people, committed a flagrant foul’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Though he says his writing was inspired by, of all people, Mickey Spillane, I suspect that's a bit of wry humor.’
  • ‘How ironic, you of all people, giving someone else a lecture on how to treat friends.’
  • ‘Amanda went weak with relief. He, of all men, had come to her rescue.’
  • ‘Baise-Moi is a hardcore French art film that was banned in, of all places, France.’