unpremeditated

Example Sentences

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“It was a clumsy attempt that seemed unpremeditated and it didn’t make sense.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2024

After deliberating for about 30 hours over six days, jurors found McClam not guilty of first-degree, or premeditated, murder but said they could not reach a verdict on a charge of second-degree, or unpremeditated, murder.

From Washington Post • Jan. 12, 2022

If death is always trying to spirit Carol away, like a demon lover, and psychosis comes suddenly for Anna, like an unpremeditated assault, it’s life that grinds Bonnie down.

From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2020

Mr Trump signed a full pardon of Mr Behenna, who has served five years for unpremeditated murder in a combat zone.

From BBC • May 7, 2019

It seemed as if somehow my questions, naive and unpremeditated though they were, had, nonetheless, provided him with some long-awaited opportunity to vent his pent-up frustrations and bitterness.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane