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UK
/ʌnæntˈɪsɪpˌeɪtɪd/
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[ US /ˌənænˈtɪsəˌpeɪtɪd/ ]
[ US /ˌənænˈtɪsəˌpeɪtɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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not anticipated
unseen problems
unforeseen circumstances
a virtue unlooked-for in people so full of energy
like a bolt out of the blue
unanticipated and disconcerting lines of development
How To Use unanticipated In A Sentence
- However, if a system has no flexibility, then it crumbles as soon as an unanticipated event happens.
- It is a hymn to the unanticipated and the miraculous and to the sustaining potential of faith and hope in life itself.
- As in, when frightened by the unanticipated attack of an allergenic cat I have been known to sneeze whilst leaping back in an unexpected fashion of my own! Auld Lang Syne, etc.
- Changing the location and the number of warehouses changes transportation costs in unanticipated and complex ways.
- The ward bosses' unanticipated about-face was not motivated by conversion but cunning and deceit that cynically betrayed public trust.
- That is, they provide unanticipated encounters as well as common experiences.
- Something, for example, is astir in Latin America which gives an unanticipated scope for hope even as the Middle East continues to blindly grope its way towards partnership with Asia.
- Of all the surprising things the Giants have pulled this year, of all the unanticipated happenings that have brought them to the Super Bowl, the nuttiest may just be the rage the word game Words with Friends is in their locker room. Words With Giants
- What we have is a highly productive aporia, an impassable pass-a point pregnant with literary meaning at which the text undermines its own foundations and collapses into a new, unanticipated flowering of meaning and significance.
- Pulsed mode allows a short cooling period between pulses and does not create as much unanticipated thermal spread and subsequent tissue destruction.