the unknown
Example Sentences
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"Perhaps this is our way of trying to control the unknown," she said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 2026
As a child, Mr. Coppola stayed close to home, “afraid of the unknown, of being alone, of losing friends and family should I venture out of Gowanus, a fear hard to shake.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Canadian Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne told the BBC in April that the attention on Mythos was warranted, in part, because "it's the unknown, unknown".
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026
What worried him was the unknown scale of data centers.
From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2026
But once lunch started and Mr. Harding and I spent fifteen minutes on x and y and solving for the unknown, I felt like a new person.
From "The Lions of Little Rock" by Kristin Levine
