unexpected
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The company said many of the incidents are being referred to as "agent spam", which it described as "unexpected or concerning" AI agent activity, like posting information to the internet.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
The unexpected finding challenges current ideas about how dead stars exchange matter and energy with their surroundings.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026
For Clara Schumann, 34 years old and pregnant with her seventh child, her husband’s confinement had an unexpected benefit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Historically, that authority had been an emergency backstop—used for hurricanes, unexpected outages, and other immediate threats.
From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2026
Later he would remember that “the views were so brief and fuzzy, a missing summit so unexpected, we were in denial about it.”
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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