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{
"word": "expect the unexpected"
},
{
"word": "sudden unexpected death syndrome"
},
{
"word": "unexpected hanging paradox"
},
{
"word": "unexpectedly"
},
{
"word": "unexpectedness"
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{
"word": "unexpected red theory"
}
],
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"ref": "1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:",
"text": "She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid,[…]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.",
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{
"ref": "1940 May, “Overseas Railways: Acceleration Proceeds in U.S.A.”, in Railway Magazine, page 298:",
"text": "But the latest Santa Fe development, while not spurring the Rock Island to any further acceleration, has drawn fire from a totally unexpected quarter.",
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},
{
"ref": "1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:",
"text": "The windmill presented unexpected difficulties.",
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},
{
"ref": "2024 August 21, 'Industry Insider', “The value of rail reopenings”, in RAIL, number 1016, page 68:",
"text": "Providing accommodation is a significant constraint, and an unexpected development from the restoration of services to Okehampton is demand from the Exeter student population to rent local properties.",
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{
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{
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"word": "неоча́кван"
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"word": "inesperat"
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{
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"word": "意外的"
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{
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{
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"word": "inattendu"
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{
"code": "fr",
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{
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{
"code": "el",
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{
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{
"code": "is",
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"word": "óvæntur"
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{
"code": "it",
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"word": "inaspettato"
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{
"code": "it",
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"sense": "not expected, anticipated or foreseen — see also unhoped-for",
"word": "insperato"
},
{
"code": "it",
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"word": "inatteso"
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{
"code": "it",
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"code": "ja",
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"word": "予想外の"
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{
"code": "ja",
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"sense": "not expected, anticipated or foreseen — see also unhoped-for",
"word": "想定外の"
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{
"code": "ja",
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"word": "意外な"
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"code": "la",
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"sense": "not expected, anticipated or foreseen — see also unhoped-for",
"word": "subitus"
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{
"code": "la",
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"sense": "not expected, anticipated or foreseen — see also unhoped-for",
"word": "repens"
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{
"code": "la",
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"sense": "not expected, anticipated or foreseen — see also unhoped-for",
"word": "necopīnātus"
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{
"code": "lb",
"lang": "Luxembourgish",
"sense": "not expected, anticipated or foreseen — see also unhoped-for",
"word": "onerwaart"
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{
"code": "mk",
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"sense": "not expected, anticipated or foreseen — see also unhoped-for",
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"roman": "apratīkṣitaṁ",
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"word": "അപ്രതീക്ഷിതം"
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"code": "gv",
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"word": "neuyerkit"
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{
"code": "mi",
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"sense": "not expected, anticipated or foreseen — see also unhoped-for",
"word": "matawhawhati"
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{
"code": "mi",
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"word": "whakaohorere"
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{
"code": "mi",
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"word": "whawhati tata"
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"sense": "not expected, anticipated or foreseen — see also unhoped-for",
"word": "uventet"
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{
"code": "nb",
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"sense": "not expected, anticipated or foreseen — see also unhoped-for",
"word": "uventa"
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"code": "nn",
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"sense": "not expected, anticipated or foreseen — see also unhoped-for",
"word": "uventa"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "not expected, anticipated or foreseen — see also unhoped-for",
"word": "nieoczekiwany"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "not expected, anticipated or foreseen — see also unhoped-for",
"word": "inesperado"
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{
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"sense": "not expected, anticipated or foreseen — see also unhoped-for",
"word": "neașteptat"
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{
"code": "ro",
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"sense": "not expected, anticipated or foreseen — see also unhoped-for",
"word": "neprevăzut"
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{
"code": "ro",
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"sense": "not expected, anticipated or foreseen — see also unhoped-for",
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "neožídannyj",
"sense": "not expected, anticipated or foreseen — see also unhoped-for",
"word": "неожи́данный"
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{
"code": "ru",
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"sense": "not expected, anticipated or foreseen — see also unhoped-for",
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{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "not expected, anticipated or foreseen — see also unhoped-for",
"tags": [
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"word": "неочѐкӣва̄н"
},
{
"code": "sh",
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"sense": "not expected, anticipated or foreseen — see also unhoped-for",
"tags": [
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"word": "nečakaný"
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{
"code": "sk",
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"sense": "not expected, anticipated or foreseen — see also unhoped-for",
"word": "neočakávaný"
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{
"code": "sl",
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"sense": "not expected, anticipated or foreseen — see also unhoped-for",
"word": "nepričakovan"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "not expected, anticipated or foreseen — see also unhoped-for",
"word": "inesperado"
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{
"code": "es",
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"sense": "not expected, anticipated or foreseen — see also unhoped-for",
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"sense": "not expected, anticipated or foreseen — see also unhoped-for",
"word": "oväntad"
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"code": "tr",
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"sense": "not expected, anticipated or foreseen — see also unhoped-for",
"word": "beklenmedik"
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{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "not expected, anticipated or foreseen — see also unhoped-for",
"word": "umulmadık"
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"roman": "nespodívanyj",
"sense": "not expected, anticipated or foreseen — see also unhoped-for",
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"lang": "Ukrainian",
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"sense": "not expected, anticipated or foreseen — see also unhoped-for",
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"code": "vi",
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"sense": "not expected, anticipated or foreseen — see also unhoped-for",
"word": "bất ngờ"
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"code": "cy",
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"sense": "not expected, anticipated or foreseen — see also unhoped-for",
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"sense": "not expected, anticipated or foreseen — see also unhoped-for",
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"sense": "not expected, anticipated or foreseen — see also unhoped-for",
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"sense": "not expected, anticipated or foreseen — see also unhoped-for",
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "not expected, anticipated or foreseen — see also unhoped-for",
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"sense": "not expected, anticipated or foreseen — see also unhoped-for",
"word": "oväntad"
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"code": "tr",
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"sense": "not expected, anticipated or foreseen — see also unhoped-for",
"word": "beklenmedik"
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"code": "tr",
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"sense": "not expected, anticipated or foreseen — see also unhoped-for",
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"sense": "not expected, anticipated or foreseen — see also unhoped-for",
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