unexpected
adjective
uk
B1
not expected:
Her resignation was completely unexpected.
Meaning of unexpected in English
unexpected | American Dictionary
unexpected
adjective
us
not expected; surprising:
Examples of unexpected
unexpected
One of the particular strengths of qualitative research is its capacity to generate unexpected findings.
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Moreover, in a liberal democracy with a well-developed private sector, would-be hegemonic efforts to extend the party's influence through society can have unexpected results.
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This reduced responsiveness on the part of the children was an unexpected finding.
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A theoretical explanation of these unexpected findings seems in order.
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Future studies may address whether unexpected ionic or molecular selectivities appear in the substates.
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However, the stochastic nature of impulse trains leads to some unexpected effects in retinal coding.
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Nevertheless, contract enforcement needs permanent adaptation to unexpected situations.
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Even if a pattern is deemed to be unexpected and valid, it may not be possible to act upon it.
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It is interesting that this distinction receives empirical support from an unexpected direction.
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Moreover, these memory errors were consistently decreased by the negative symptoms reflecting lack of emotion or social interactions, although this observation was unexpected.
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Thus, their relatively large frequency (4% of all consonants) in early canonical babbling was unexpected, though still much lower than adult frequencies.
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The detection of unexpected coherent echoes by incoherent scatter radars raises important questions concerning the generation mechanisms that spill over into coherent radars.
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This was not unexpected given the oversampling of elderly respondents in the first wave.
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One of the advantages of using evolutionary algorithms is that they can discover solutions that are unexpected by the implementer of the evolutionary system.
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Most people suggested a combination of spending some resources in retirement and saving some for unexpected events later on.
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思いがけない, 予想（よそう）していない…
beklenmedik, umulmadık, âni…
inattendu/-ue, imprévu/-ue, inattendu…
inesperat…
onverwacht…
غَيْر مُتَوَقَّع…
neočekávaný…
uventet…
tak terduga-duga…
ที่ไม่ได้คาดไว้…
bất ngờ…
niespodziewany…
tdk dijangka…
unerwartet…
uventet…
예기치 않은…
несподіваний, непередбачений…
inatteso, inaspettato, imprevisto…
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