unanticipated

/ ˌʌnænˈtɪsɪˌpeɪtɪd /

adjective

1. not anticipated; unforeseen

Example Sentences

You need to recognize the fact that something unanticipated could happen.

From Digiday

Its creators hope to define objects in a way that’s useful now but flexible enough to accommodate the unanticipated uses mathematicians might have for these objects.

From Quanta Magazine

These microscopic air bags “have so many uses that were totally unanticipated,” Shapiro says.

From Science News

The example resonates because wars, like pandemics, create dramatic, unanticipated needs for medical innovations.

From Popular-Science

I mean, it has very little to do with the unanticipated uses.

From The Daily Beast

They can also have unintended and unanticipated consequences.

From The Daily Beast

Meanwhile, the conservative activist Ralph Reed called it “an unanticipated gift to the Romney campaign.”

From The Daily Beast

And in some places, it has worked out—but with unanticipated complications.

From The Daily Beast

Despite years in adult entertainment, this exposure of her private life was unprecedented and unanticipated, says Foster.

From The Daily Beast

There are many mysteries of marriage, quite unanticipated by the bachelor before he changes his state.

From Project Gutenberg

These came in their order, and with them, unanticipated tarnishings on the first bright perfection of our relations.

From Project Gutenberg

This unanticipated exclamation astonished and delighted me, especially when I recognized, by the sound of her voice, Old Rachel.

From Project Gutenberg

It was very sudden—entirely unanticipated—although I had been suspecting disease of the heart.

From Project Gutenberg

For it was a charm; an actual feminine, an unanticipated personal, charm; past reach of tongue to name, wordless in thought.

From Project Gutenberg