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

Happily, for some unobvious reason, no one seemed to associate me with the bullocks' waywardness, but it took me ten minutes' cajolery to elicit the address of a peasant who might hire me a cart.

From Jonah and Co. by Yates, Dornford