See sight unseen in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1902, Myrtle Reed, chapter 5, in Lavender and Old Lace:",
"text": "When she wrote, asking me to take charge of her house while she went to Europe, I gladly consented, sight unseen.",
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"ref": "2005 August 2, Michiko Kakutani, “They'll Take Manhattan, for a Million or More”, in The New York Times, retrieved 2008-09-01:",
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"sense": "not seen beforehand",
"word": "näkemätön"
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