unbeknownst
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Will your question invite helpful suggestions, or, unbeknownst to you, poke a bear who is exhausted by people making this same mistake over and over?
From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2026
In July, officials from OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, disclosed that, unbeknownst to them, its AI models had hacked into rival startup Hugging Face.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
But he was really on a different plane, unbeknownst to the public and many in his entourage.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
“A lot of parents in new relationships end up, unbeknownst to them, disinheriting their children,” said Stacy Francis, a New York City-based certified financial planner.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
He discovered that, evidently unbeknownst to anyone, someone had filmed the race.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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