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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

A Month in the Country is set in 1920; Birkin somehow survived Passchendaele – the extreme shade a setting for his jewel of a Yorkshire summer, an unlooked-for gift given “on borrowed time”.

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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