unpremeditated
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“It was a clumsy attempt that seemed unpremeditated and it didn’t make sense.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2024
After deliberating for about 30 hours over six days, jurors found McClam not guilty of first-degree, or premeditated, murder but said they could not reach a verdict on a charge of second-degree, or unpremeditated, murder.
From Washington Post • Jan. 12, 2022
Mr Trump signed a full pardon of Mr Behenna, who has served five years for unpremeditated murder in a combat zone.
From BBC • May 7, 2019
It worked, but it seems to have been completely unpremeditated.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 16, 2015
It seemed as if somehow my questions, naive and unpremeditated though they were, had, nonetheless, provided him with some long-awaited opportunity to vent his pent-up frustrations and bitterness.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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