unintended

Example Sentences

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Authorities have been aggressively shutting down cybercrime rings—with the unintended consequence of tutoring them in covering their tracks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

Bill Plaschke spoke a quiet and perhaps unintended truth in his column praising the competitiveness of the World Baseball Classic.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2026

Their narrow military assessment leaves out the broader, unintended consequences of the war.

From Barron's • Mar. 17, 2026

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

From Science Daily • Mar. 17, 2026

It is this sort of revolution, a revolution of unintended consequences and unforeseen outcomes, that Butterfield intended to evoke by the term ‘the Scientific Revolution’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton