unprecedented 'unprecedented'

With raging bushfires, water shortages and successive record-breaking temperatures, researchers have noted the unprecedented preponderance of the word 'unprecedented' in news reports over the past month.

and in a move that has shocked seasoned observers, even merdeoch outlets are admitting: this is worse than we've seen before.

Linguists assure the media monitors that the word's recent autological status should pass in a matter of years.