unawares

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All of those clips are mesmerizing and alluring and haunting, as if we’re actually looking at invisible spirits or fairies captured unawares.

From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2024

Because forecasters were caught unawares, so were local residents, who only expected perhaps a Category 2 storm.

From Scientific American • Oct. 25, 2023

Our source said that the coup caught everyone unawares, despite rumours floating around Gen Nguema.

From BBC • Sep. 2, 2023

Or perhaps radioactivity would bring about a dystopian nightmare: As Rutherford liked to say, "Some fool in a laboratory might blow up the universe unawares" by triggering a planetary chain reaction.

From Salon • Aug. 12, 2023

It must have hurt as much as it caught the Reverend unawares.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou