unlooked-for
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of unlooked-for
Example Sentences
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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
Edna’s desire to see Mademoiselle Reisz had increased tenfold since these unlooked-for obstacles had arisen to thwart it.
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
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