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unlooked-for

[uhn-lookt-fawr] / ʌnˈlʊktˌfɔr /




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But it turns out — spoiler alert — that he’s “something of a military genius” who has unlooked-for gifts as a guerilla leader.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026

We have been supplying a legitimate professional demand and not once could have foreseen the unlooked-for results.

From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2022

Like she did with Bloodborne PSX, Walther will provide daily development updates on her Twitter page, offering neat tidbits into the making of such an unlooked-for but right-on-time project.

From The Verge ● Mar. 25, 2022

“Ah those days,” writes Carr in A Month in the Country, which is that extraordinary thing, a novel that manages to bring alive, without sentimentality, a rare, unlooked-for few weeks of gentle happiness.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 4, 2018

His hand and shoulder were twitching from the unlooked-for contact.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding


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