Example Sentences

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“They’re asking the obvious but also the unobvious questions.”

From Washington Post • Dec. 10, 2017

It was, and it was partly that content that made the eighties love unobvious.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 17, 2014

When a play looks obvious, pause for a moment to check if the unobvious might be better.

From New York Times • Dec. 25, 2011

House revels in cases of the unobvious, which also means exploding the myth of hospital consultants as all-knowing demigods of their own universe.

From The Guardian • Oct. 5, 2010

In thus narrowing the field, we have the obvious advantage of cultivating it more carefully, and the unobvious, but very real, advantage of dealing with one homogeneous subject.

From Practical Essays by Bain, Alexander