unawares
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Harteveldt also said the airlines are making schedule changes well ahead of peak summer travel season so as not to catch travelers unawares.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 28, 2026
Federal prosecutors disagreed, indicating they were caught unawares by his removal and still hoped to bring Flores to trial — if he ever returns to the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 2026
All of those clips are mesmerizing and alluring and haunting, as if we’re actually looking at invisible spirits or fairies captured unawares.
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2024
Because forecasters were caught unawares, so were local residents, who only expected perhaps a Category 2 storm.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 25, 2023
With this benediction, abruptly, he set oiT running; and I, caught unawares, ran after him, and within a few steps had mastered his pace.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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