Unforeseen
adjective
Not expected or predicted.
They had to deal with some unforeseen complications.
Often appears as...
- unforeseen circumstances
- unforeseen problems
adjective
Not expected or predicted.
They had to deal with some unforeseen complications.
Often appears as...
- unforeseen circumstances
- unforeseen problems
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Pro Tip 1/3Negative Emotion
Often implies inconvenience or a negative outcome that was not planned for.
Their picnic was ruined by an unforeseen storm.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Bad
Can also refer to positive surprises, like a beneficial event or opportunity.
The unforeseen success of her book led to a series of interviews.
Pro Tip 3/3Neutral Contexts
Used in business or planning contexts to describe events that could not have been predicted.
We need to allocate funds for unforeseen expenses in the project.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Emotion
Often implies inconvenience or a negative outcome that was not planned for.
Their picnic was ruined by an unforeseen storm.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Bad
Can also refer to positive surprises, like a beneficial event or opportunity.
The unforeseen success of her book led to a series of interviews.
Pro Tip 3/3Neutral Contexts
Used in business or planning contexts to describe events that could not have been predicted.
We need to allocate funds for unforeseen expenses in the project.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Emotion
Often implies inconvenience or a negative outcome that was not planned for.
Their picnic was ruined by an unforeseen storm.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Bad
Can also refer to positive surprises, like a beneficial event or opportunity.
The unforeseen success of her book led to a series of interviews.
Pro Tip 3/3Neutral Contexts
Used in business or planning contexts to describe events that could not have been predicted.
We need to allocate funds for unforeseen expenses in the project.
Compare with
anticipateastonishexpectpredictsuddensurprise, surpriseunforeseeableunplanned
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Can seaweed help curb...
involves a planetary-scale intervention. And we have to be very careful. I think that piles of stinking seaweed are probably going to be the least of our problems. There's other unforeseen things that will happen. One of the things that really worries me, when I talk about this, is the fate of biodiversity in the deep ocean.
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How does climate change...
carbon from the ocean and therefore buffer reduce ocean acidification and perhaps buffer the reefs you know that though we've got no idea about any of that but what we do know is that if we do this we really have to test any of those strategies that we put in place to make sure that there's no unforeseen
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What's wrong with what...
our demand for these things, not our need, our want, drives us to consume way more calories than are good for us. And those calories are in foods that cause, not prevent, disease. Now global warming was unforeseen. We didn't know that pollution did more than cause bad visibility.
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We need to track the...
I filled it with fresh water and I added one drop of mercury. That would dilute down to one part per billion mercury, which is well within what the World Health Organization considers safe. But if there was any unforeseen drop in how much water was available --
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The paradox of...
he made a circuit of a trail, the sandwalk that he'd built behind his house. A productive path can be physical, like Darwin's, or a virtual one, or an unforeseen detour from a path we had laid out. Too much efficiency can weaken itself.
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This tool will help...
Professors explored students’ understanding of judicial reasoning by challenging them with unforeseen hypothetical situations. This approach is still used today by the Supreme Court to imagine the unintended impacts of passing a law.
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How one scientist took...
After the war, it was routinely sprayed in wide swaths to fight pests, often with unforeseen results. One attempt to eradicate fire ants in the southern U.S. killed wildlife indiscriminately, but did little to eliminate the ants.
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Our dangerous obsession...
This is a society that preys on their insecurities. Insecurities about how they are performing and how they are appearing to other people. This is a society that amplifies their imperfections. Every flaw, every unforeseen setback
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Bertrand Piccard's...
We have to keep everything under control. Well, the unknown is part of life. And in that sense, ballooning is a beautiful metaphor. Because in the balloon, like in life, we go very well in unforeseen directions.
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How risk-taking changes...
It reminds me that this process taught me to take risks. And I know that might sound incredibly ironic. But I took risks realizing that unforeseen opportunities often come from risk-taking --
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Can seaweed help curb...
involves a planetary-scale intervention. And we have to be very careful. I think that piles of stinking seaweed are probably going to be the least of our problems. There's other unforeseen things that will happen. One of the things that really worries me, when I talk about this, is the fate of biodiversity in the deep ocean.
Video examples
How does climate change...
carbon from the ocean and therefore buffer reduce ocean acidification and perhaps buffer the reefs you know that though we've got no idea about any of that but what we do know is that if we do this we really have to test any of those strategies that we put in place to make sure that there's no unforeseen
Video examples
What's wrong with what...
our demand for these things, not our need, our want, drives us to consume way more calories than are good for us. And those calories are in foods that cause, not prevent, disease. Now global warming was unforeseen. We didn't know that pollution did more than cause bad visibility.
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We need to track the...
I filled it with fresh water and I added one drop of mercury. That would dilute down to one part per billion mercury, which is well within what the World Health Organization considers safe. But if there was any unforeseen drop in how much water was available --
Video examples
The paradox of...
he made a circuit of a trail, the sandwalk that he'd built behind his house. A productive path can be physical, like Darwin's, or a virtual one, or an unforeseen detour from a path we had laid out. Too much efficiency can weaken itself.
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This tool will help...
Professors explored students’ understanding of judicial reasoning by challenging them with unforeseen hypothetical situations. This approach is still used today by the Supreme Court to imagine the unintended impacts of passing a law.
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How one scientist took...
After the war, it was routinely sprayed in wide swaths to fight pests, often with unforeseen results. One attempt to eradicate fire ants in the southern U.S. killed wildlife indiscriminately, but did little to eliminate the ants.
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Our dangerous obsession...
This is a society that preys on their insecurities. Insecurities about how they are performing and how they are appearing to other people. This is a society that amplifies their imperfections. Every flaw, every unforeseen setback
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Bertrand Piccard's...
We have to keep everything under control. Well, the unknown is part of life. And in that sense, ballooning is a beautiful metaphor. Because in the balloon, like in life, we go very well in unforeseen directions.
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How risk-taking changes...
It reminds me that this process taught me to take risks. And I know that might sound incredibly ironic. But I took risks realizing that unforeseen opportunities often come from risk-taking --
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P. T. Barnum
American Entertainer
True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with the new pair of gloves; mend the old dress: live on plainer food if need be; so that, under all circumstances, unless some unforeseen accident occurs, there will be a margin in favor of the income.
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Jason Silva
American Director
Technology sometimes gets a bad rap because of certain consequences that it's had on the environment and unforeseen problems, but we shouldn't use it as an excuse to reject our tools; rather, we should decide that we need to make better tools to solve the problems caused by the initial tools in a progressive wave of innovation.
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Alain Badiou
French Philosopher
A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.
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Luciana Berger
British Politician
It looks like caring for the most vulnerable in our society could be yet another casualty of Brexit, with over-stretched and potentially unsafe care services and a reduction in female employment another unforeseen consequence.
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Tony Dungy
American Coach
Everything's not going to go perfect. You're going to have some losses that you're going to have to bounce back from and some things that are a little unforeseen that you're going to have to deal with.
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Thomas Paine
English Activist
War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.
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Brian Greene
American Physicist
The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.
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Quentin Crisp
English Writer
For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
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Raymond E. Feist
American Author
One of the key issues will be personal honour vs. the good of the many, and unforeseen consequences.
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Stendhal
French Writer
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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P. T. Barnum
American Entertainer
True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with the new pair of gloves; mend the old dress: live on plainer food if need be; so that, under all circumstances, unless some unforeseen accident occurs, there will be a margin in favor of the income.
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Jason Silva
American Director
Technology sometimes gets a bad rap because of certain consequences that it's had on the environment and unforeseen problems, but we shouldn't use it as an excuse to reject our tools; rather, we should decide that we need to make better tools to solve the problems caused by the initial tools in a progressive wave of innovation.
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Alain Badiou
French Philosopher
A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.
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Luciana Berger
British Politician
It looks like caring for the most vulnerable in our society could be yet another casualty of Brexit, with over-stretched and potentially unsafe care services and a reduction in female employment another unforeseen consequence.
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Tony Dungy
American Coach
Everything's not going to go perfect. You're going to have some losses that you're going to have to bounce back from and some things that are a little unforeseen that you're going to have to deal with.
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Thomas Paine
English Activist
War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.
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Brian Greene
American Physicist
The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.
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Quentin Crisp
English Writer
For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
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Raymond E. Feist
American Author
One of the key issues will be personal honour vs. the good of the many, and unforeseen consequences.
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Stendhal
French Writer
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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