unexpected
Example Sentences
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A lot can go wrong, and the U.S. needs to be ready for the unexpected.
One unexpected bottleneck: aging electricity grids that can’t handle the power.
However, the scientists also observed an unexpected difference.
From Science Daily
However, the policies have brought an unexpected windfall to the Honduran economy: the thousands of Hondurans who live undocumented and under the radar in those cities are sending home more remittances than ever.
From BBC
Those anomalies included unexpected deficits seen in reactor-neutrino experiments and gallium-source measurements, both of which had hinted at a fourth neutrino.
From Science Daily
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