unplanned
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Unplanned blockages, like those last weekend, are a different matter.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 27, 2024
Unplanned maintenance was required at Rio’s anode furnaces leading to extended downtime and continued poor anode production, which is likely to result in weak cathode production in the first quarter of 2023.
From Reuters • Jan. 16, 2023
Admiral Swift said he stressed the guidelines known as the Code for Unplanned Encounters at Sea, which set out protocol that Chinese and American vessels could follow when navigating close to each other.
From New York Times • Sep. 13, 2022
Unplanned pregnancy, Brookings wrote back in 2016, "is associated with higher rates of poverty, less family stability, and worse outcomes for children."
From Salon • May 11, 2022
Unplanned, blind, automatic, spurred on by the pain of hunger, man has literally drifted his way around the planet.
From A Collection of Stories by London, Jack
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