unpremeditated
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“It was a clumsy attempt that seemed unpremeditated and it didn’t make sense.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2024
It fulfills our yearning for “authenticity”: Colloquial speech sounds direct and unpremeditated.
From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2021
If death is always trying to spirit Carol away, like a demon lover, and psychosis comes suddenly for Anna, like an unpremeditated assault, it’s life that grinds Bonnie down.
From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2020
Mr Trump signed a full pardon of Mr Behenna, who has served five years for unpremeditated murder in a combat zone.
From BBC • May 7, 2019
It seemed as if somehow my questions, naive and unpremeditated though they were, had, nonetheless, provided him with some long-awaited opportunity to vent his pent-up frustrations and bitterness.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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