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
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
‘But often I must put mirth aside. Elladan and Elrohir have returned out of the Wild unlooked-for, and they had tidings that I wished to hear at once.’
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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