unforeseen event

Example Sentences

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“Barring any sort of unforeseen event, we expect the conditions to remain accommodating” and supportive of lending activity, he added.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025

One Stop Shopping, which runs the centre where Market Village was based, said this "unforeseen event has undoubtedly left both traders and patrons with questions and concerns".

From BBC • Jan. 15, 2024

Barry Callebaut had been due to release its earnings on Wednesday, but published the figures early due to an "unforeseen event".

From Reuters • Nov. 1, 2022

Say you bought a home but have to sell it within two years because of a job relocation, an illness or disability, or another unforeseen event that forces a move.

From New York Times • Mar. 25, 2022

Some unforeseen event or circumstance in the battles of Napoleon might have changed some of his most brilliant victories to utter defeats and his grandest triumphs into disastrous routs.

From History of Kershaw's Brigade by Dickert, D. Augustus