as in sudden
not expected
ran into some unanticipated difficulties with the computer program
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Recent Examples of unanticipated
Instead, the advent of the birth control pill and other cultural and economic trends pushed the fertility rate down — evidence of how factors outside a demographer’s field of study can have enormous unanticipated effects.
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Dylan Scott, Vox, 5 Feb. 2025
Like many early neocons, Kristol was a Marxist who became disillusioned with both the anti-democratic nature of Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union and the unanticipated consequences of liberal social policies in the United States.
—Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
The project ratified a longstanding belief of mine: that credible scientists should not be discouraged from doing research on unfashionable topics, because good science deepens our understanding of the world and can lead to unanticipated applications.
—IEEE Spectrum, 25 Nov. 2024
TikTok’s Impact on Outdoor Access The ban is set to have unanticipated ripple effects in the outdoors community.
—Taylor Lorenz, Outside Online, 15 Jan. 2025
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Dylan Scott, Vox, 5 Feb. 2025
Like many early neocons, Kristol was a Marxist who became disillusioned with both the anti-democratic nature of Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union and the unanticipated consequences of liberal social policies in the United States.
—Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
The project ratified a longstanding belief of mine: that credible scientists should not be discouraged from doing research on unfashionable topics, because good science deepens our understanding of the world and can lead to unanticipated applications.
—IEEE Spectrum, 25 Nov. 2024
TikTok’s Impact on Outdoor Access The ban is set to have unanticipated ripple effects in the outdoors community.
—Taylor Lorenz, Outside Online, 15 Jan. 2025
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“Unanticipated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unanticipated. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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