unsuspected
Americanadjective
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not regarded or considered with suspicion.
unsuspected in the crime.
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not imagined to exist.
a person of unsuspected talents.
adjective
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not under suspicion
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not known to exist
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Origin of unsuspected
Example Sentences
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The fight only begins with the fact that the latest cutting-edge U.S. models, led by Anthropic’s Mythos, seem to be uncannily good at finding dangerous and unsuspected vulnerabilities in all major software systems.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
And this philosophy of letting Goldie stay where he was until he was hungry seemed to be a good one - until he started to show hitherto unsuspected initiative.
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2025
Adding the eight sugars proved challenging, as did balancing unsuspected interactions among enzymes in yeast.
From Science Daily ● May 8, 2024
The new work shows that elsewhere in the body, it has an unsuspected and “completely divergent role.”
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 13, 2024
A great uproar was raised, but he was unsuspected; while Dub, an awkward blunderer who was always getting caught, was punished for Buck’s misdeed.
From "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London
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