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.
New laws could lead to unintended consequences for other vital democratic interests that may outweigh uncertain benefits.
She has said the changes would better align capital requirements with actual risk and correct unintended consequences from earlier postcrisis rules.
From Barron's
Baroness Lloyd added the amendment "could risk unintended consequences and it would mean acting before listening to what the consultation tells us and what parents and children need".
From BBC
But as with Iraq, the war may produce unintended consequences.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
