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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unheralded
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an unheralded accomplishment
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As we approached the helicopter, a shower burst over us, one of those unheralded showers which sweep the Alps.
▪ Clark, an unheralded cornerback with blazing speed, stepped in front of Brown to remove any lingering suspense.
▪ Their unheralded work has injected an element of hope into sometimes desperate circumstances.
▪ There is also, unheralded and essentially unexplained, a first public appearance of Nietzsche's new antithesis.
▪ This time, it was so unheralded as to appear almost artificial.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unheralded

1845, from un- (1) "not" + past participle of herald (v.).

Wiktionary
unheralded

a. 1 Without prior warning; unexpected or unannounced 2 Not heralded

WordNet
unheralded

adj. without warning or announcement; "they arrived unannounced"; "a totally unheralded telegram that his daughter...died last night"- M.A.D.Howe [syn: unannounced, unpredicted]

Usage examples of "unheralded".

The second-in-command of the brewery made an exit as unheralded as his entry.

Safe today but soon there will be another bad one, a killer earthquake, like seven years ago when I almost died and a hundred thousand people perished in Yedo alone in the earthquake and in the fires that always follow, not counting the tens of thousands washed out to sea and drowned in the tsunami wave that swept unheralded out of the sea that night--one of them my lovely Yuriko, then the passion of my life.

That was precisely why the packloads of ancient machines and spare parts for them were of such unheralded potential value to the Center, why acquisition of them had been felt to be well worth the cold-blooded murder of hundreds of men, women and children, not to mention the expense of fitting out and dispatching this packtrain and the necessary armed guards to accompany it.

Hollywood scriptwriter who remained unheralded during his lifetime, but has now received posthumous acclaim for his workin particular his darkly accurate pictures of smalltime con artists, congenital liars and occasional killers.

Hollywood scriptwriter who remained unheralded during his lifetime, but has now received posthumous acclaim for his work-in particular his darkly accurate pictures of smalltime con artists, congenital liars and occasional killers.

To begin with, the thing was so antipodally at variance with the whole chain of horrors preceding it - the change of mood from stark terror to cool complacency and even exultation was so unheralded, lightning-like, and complete!

The consumerist religion whose roots found purchase in the previous century, whose first unwitting prophets are the unheralded shapers of our present, has sounded its evangel and like a great wave has washed over every shore, immersing all but a few unreceptive souls in the dayglo colors and unsubtle music of its innocuous paradise vision.

Sneak attacks, irregular warfare, and unexpected and unheralded tactics were generally frowned on as violations of the rules.

Her marriage to Roelf had been so hasty, so unheralded, and the birth of Kobus had followed so swiftly.

The block-long apartment buildings that were the lot of the most of Sabis's citizens occupied the low ground of the riverside and the valleys between Sabis's fair hills, territory prone to settling (and unheralded building collapses), prone to stale air and river stench (and the stink of other things, since the city provided sewers to the street, but not to the buildings), lately prone to overcrowding, since the city had become, over fifty years of dwindling provinces, the refuge and the economic hope for the world (the sink of all the sewers of the earth, the late Emperor had said on his deathbed—.

That plane distinguished itself with year after year of daily nonstops to Viet Nam-its performance record one of the many unheralded benefits to come from the war.

To go his own quiet way, unheralded by the press and unacclaimed of men—that was the modest ambition of Mr.