unlooked-for

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But it turns out — spoiler alert — that he’s “something of a military genius” who has unlooked-for gifts as a guerilla leader.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

Like she did with Bloodborne PSX, Walther will provide daily development updates on her Twitter page, offering neat tidbits into the making of such an unlooked-for but right-on-time project.

From The Verge • Mar. 25, 2022

“Ah those days,” writes Carr in A Month in the Country, which is that extraordinary thing, a novel that manages to bring alive, without sentimentality, a rare, unlooked-for few weeks of gentle happiness.

From The Guardian • Aug. 4, 2018

“Pericles,” the tale of a seafaring prince who experiences unfathomable loss and unlooked-for redemption, has its problems.

From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2016

‘But often I must put mirth aside. Elladan and Elrohir have returned out of the Wild unlooked-for, and they had tidings that I wished to hear at once.’

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien