the great unknown
Example Sentences
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The stepchildren’s feelings and behavior remain the great unknown question mark hanging over your head, as your husband rightly alluded to.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 20, 2026
It was, instead, a staggered stumble into the great unknown, a night requiring extra time, exhausting effort, and the overcoming of one massive mistake.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2023
“It scratches that itch, trying in some way to hypothesize about the great unknown, to explore the notion of revisiting unfinished business,” Mr. Friedlander said.
From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2021
She said the show's viewers had been "at the heart of everything we do" as she prepared to "leap off this sofa into the great unknown".
From BBC • Sep. 15, 2021
But I’m also feeling all that I have in my life, which includes what I have lost, as well as the great unknown of what life might still bring me.
From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman
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