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Surprising French article about warning received by new witness
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unforeseen
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Word definitions for unforeseen in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from un- (1) "not" + past participle of foresee . Similar formation in Middle Dutch onvoresien , Dutch onvoorzien , Middle High German unvorsen .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 not foreseen. 2 not expected.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. not anticipated; "unanticipated and disconcerting lines of development"- H.W.Glidden; "unforeseen circumstances"; "a virtue unlooked-for in people so full of energy"; "like a bolt out of the blue" [syn: unanticipated , unlooked-for , out of the blue(p) ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a sudden/unexpected/unforeseen emergency (= a situation that was not planned ) ▪ I left half an hour early in case of traffic jams or some other unforeseen emergency. unforeseen circumstances (= that you did not ...
Usage examples of unforeseen.
By combining their individual intelligences they succeed in coping with adverse circumstances, even quite unforeseen and unusual, like those bees of the Paris Exhibition which fastened with their resinous propolis the shutter to a glass-plate fitted in the wall of their hive.
Therefore, on the day when this plan, slowly and solitarily ripened, shall break forth, it will break forth with all the conditions of success which always accompany an unforeseen event.
He was well aware that unforeseen unforeseeable circumstances might negate his purpose, and bring him trouble, disgrace, or worse.
In any conspiracy there were always imponderables, he knew, unforeseen and unforeseeable occurrences that could ruin a scheme, however well devised.
A second hypothesis might be that the unforeseen persistence of capitalism involves simply a continuation of the same processes of expansion and accumulation that we analyzed earlier, only that the complete depletion of the environment was not yet imminent, and that the moment of conf ronting limits and of ecological disaster is still to come.
It was too boring to think that the object might change of its own accord and assume unforeseen characteristics.
In allowing such shockingly unforeseen pleasure and new insight into familiar events, Nabokov makes almost unbearably delightful the prospect of an immortality in which such discoveries would be rife.
Maia, once again out of sight in the darkness, found herself faced with a dilemma, unforeseen in her agitation at being so suddenly called upon to dance.
Faraerth and his superiors in the Hegemony Fleet, this unforeseen change was merely a clarion call for greater caution.
The unforeseen event, till the north wind Sprung from the sea, lifting the heavy veil Of battle-smoke--then victory--victory!
On those occasions, the worst thing we can do is to avoid making a choice in the hope that if we just think hard enough an unforeseen solution will materialize that will relieve us of the need to make the hard choice.
So it would have to be strong enough to be able to overcome any resistance quickly and big enough to afford to detach subelements to mask cities, protect its logistical lines, and exploit any unforeseen opportunities for maneuver that present themselves along the way.
One of the great dangers of this campaign is that we would not bring enough force and then would find ourselves bogged down by unforeseen developments.
It was a two-stage rocket with a microcomputer that had, besides the standard programs of contact, the ability to revise and alter them to fit unforeseen circumstances.
And in order for it to respond suitably to the unforeseen behavior of the host upon landing, it was given a too-intelligent computer.