unintended

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Former Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner’s Workers’ Rights Bill in 2025 had the unintended effect of discouraging employers from making permanent hires and instead incentivizing them to take workers on as sub-contractors.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026

Authorities have been aggressively shutting down cybercrime rings—with the unintended consequence of tutoring them in covering their tracks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

She has said the changes would better align capital requirements with actual risk and correct unintended consequences from earlier postcrisis rules.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

Bill Plaschke spoke a quiet and perhaps unintended truth in his column praising the competitiveness of the World Baseball Classic.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2026

Above all, both political revolutions and the Scientific Revolution have had unintended, not intended, outcomes.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton