unintended

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Former Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner’s Workers’ Rights Bill in 2025 had the unintended effect of discouraging employers from making permanent hires and instead incentivizing them to take workers on as sub-contractors.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026

She has said the changes would better align capital requirements with actual risk and correct unintended consequences from earlier postcrisis rules.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

But as with Iraq, the war may produce unintended consequences.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

These vaccines also require cold storage and may cause unintended off-target effects.

From Science Daily • Mar. 17, 2026

The old walrus in fact managed to instill in me a great and burning ambition; it had simply found expression in an unintended pursuit.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer