beyond (all) recognition
Frequency: 6.88.9 per million words
Figurative: changed so much that it is no longer recognizable.
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Examples (10)
- Many of those interviewed said their job had changed beyond recognition over the past five years.
- The city has altered beyond all recognition since I was last here twenty years ago.
- After the accident, the front of the car was crushed beyond recognition.
- The digital landscape has transformed beyond all recognition due to the rise of AI.
- She had aged so much that she was beyond recognition to her old school friends.
- The old factory has been renovated beyond all recognition into luxury apartments.
- Our traditional way of life is changing beyond recognition in this globalized world.
- The landscape was scarred beyond all recognition by the devastating forest fires.
- The draft of the treaty was amended beyond recognition during the final negotiations.
- Communication technology has advanced beyond all recognition in the last few decades.