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The bears here are very peaceful, this one just caught me off guard. – David Oppenheimer	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think the thing Trump was most perturbed about [was] me asking him to be my vice president, i think that was lower on the list of things that caught him off guard. – President Trump	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I didn't see the ban coming so far, we were caught off-guard, i can't do anything, it's some kind of political issue between Taiwan and Mainland China... we simply want to grow good fruits and sell them at a good price. – Li Meng-han	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Because of the rapid warm up of about 10 degrees a day, this prevents residents and tourists alike from acclimating to the hot temperatures, and unless they're paying close attention to the forecast, can catch them off guard when recreating outside this weekend. – Jenn Varian	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Who would ever imagine that a pipeline into America( for Ukrainians) would open through Mexico ? that just caught us all completely off guard. – Pastor Phil Metzger	Found on CNN 2 years ago
That phone call was terrifying and caught me off guard. I remember hearing the accusations and just repeating ‘no, no, no’ and then hanging up. I was happy to be in the TikTok video with the girls, which was obvious proof of my attendance. – Abby Broyles	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
You're setting up expectations so the employee is not caught off guard. – Raymond Lee	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We were caught off-guard, that can never happen again, we learned from terrorism, Eric Adams don't wait'til the day when a plane attacks. – Eric Adams	Found on CNN 2 years ago
[ I ] think that Cara Serber was the mouthpiece of the administration, and Cara Serber got caught off guard, and it wasn't fair to Cara Serber. – Cara Serber	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It's the first time we're hearing it, i am very caught off guard about hearing what we just heard. – Jim Schmidt	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It really caught everyone off guard, no one was forecasting that amount of rain. – Jason Chappell	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It catches a lot of hikers, tourists coming in from out of the area off guard, and it's very dry. – Andrew Taylor	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It kind of caught me off guard. – Colleen Distin	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It's very emotional, it kind of caught me off guard. – Colleen Distin	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Me and Tom were infuriated that they were causing Emmanuel Kelly Cooper this additional suffering, that did catch us off-guard, but we knew that dismissal was a forgone conclusion. – Jabbar Collins	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Basically, it gives you an insurance policy against things we may not be able to anticipate, the virus has really kind of caught us off guard in a few instances. – Joshua Salomon	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The players are just getting thrown off-guard a lot. I think it’s going to demand a lot of patience and a lot of flexibility and who is going to really adjust and adapt the best, players are so used to routines. They like to be in control. They’re not in control. – Chris Evert	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The reason why it caught me off guard was because the veryfirst time I found outMike cheated on me was through a DM, automatically, Im in freak out mode. – Jana Kramer	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We were disappointed about the charges themselves. They moved forward on negligent criminal homicide, we were both surprised and relieved to see charges going forward at all. It's been well past the normal time, well over a year since the incident happened. It caught us off guard, but it was a welcome relief. – Lee Merritt	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It just caught me off guard. I never knew you could get striked for clips, i'm not sure what I'll do when I come back to streaming because music plays a huge part in a lot of people's streams. – Macaiyla Edwards	Found on CNN 3 years ago
That's why you see that generous' we were all caught off guard' sentiment on the first phase. – Kristen Soltis Anderson	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I had never seen anything like that, it threw me way off guard. He busted my nose and it started bleeding and then he stepped back and head kicked me. – Donald Cerrone	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Both Mexico and China seem to have been caught off guard, it's troubling. It does indicate a bit of a pattern on the U.S. side of presenting different agreements than their parties think they agreed to. – Jorge Guajardo	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
This is a big crisis that has certainly got the attention of top (Boehringer) management, big companies like predictability, they like planning, and the one thing that throws us off guard here most is that over the last year, we had to reset expectations multiple times. – Stephan Lange	Found on Reuters 4 years ago

The bears here are very peaceful, this one just caught me off guard.

– David Oppenheimer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think the thing Trump was most perturbed about [was] me asking him to be my vice president, i think that was lower on the list of things that caught him off guard.

– President Trump

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I didn't see the ban coming so far, we were caught off-guard, i can't do anything, it's some kind of political issue between Taiwan and Mainland China... we simply want to grow good fruits and sell them at a good price.

– Li Meng-han

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Because of the rapid warm up of about 10 degrees a day, this prevents residents and tourists alike from acclimating to the hot temperatures, and unless they're paying close attention to the forecast, can catch them off guard when recreating outside this weekend.

– Jenn Varian

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Who would ever imagine that a pipeline into America( for Ukrainians) would open through Mexico ? that just caught us all completely off guard.

– Pastor Phil Metzger

Found on CNN
2 years ago

That phone call was terrifying and caught me off guard. I remember hearing the accusations and just repeating ‘no, no, no’ and then hanging up. I was happy to be in the TikTok video with the girls, which was obvious proof of my attendance.

– Abby Broyles

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

You're setting up expectations so the employee is not caught off guard.

– Raymond Lee

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We were caught off-guard, that can never happen again, we learned from terrorism, Eric Adams don't wait'til the day when a plane attacks.

– Eric Adams

Found on CNN
2 years ago

[ I ] think that Cara Serber was the mouthpiece of the administration, and Cara Serber got caught off guard, and it wasn't fair to Cara Serber.

– Cara Serber

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's the first time we're hearing it, i am very caught off guard about hearing what we just heard.

– Jim Schmidt

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It really caught everyone off guard, no one was forecasting that amount of rain.

– Jason Chappell

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It catches a lot of hikers, tourists coming in from out of the area off guard, and it's very dry.

– Andrew Taylor

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It kind of caught me off guard.

– Colleen Distin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's very emotional, it kind of caught me off guard.

– Colleen Distin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Me and Tom were infuriated that they were causing Emmanuel Kelly Cooper this additional suffering, that did catch us off-guard, but we knew that dismissal was a forgone conclusion.

– Jabbar Collins

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Basically, it gives you an insurance policy against things we may not be able to anticipate, the virus has really kind of caught us off guard in a few instances.

– Joshua Salomon

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The players are just getting thrown off-guard a lot. I think it’s going to demand a lot of patience and a lot of flexibility and who is going to really adjust and adapt the best, players are so used to routines. They like to be in control. They’re not in control.

– Chris Evert

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The reason why it caught me off guard was because the veryfirst time I found outMike cheated on me was through a DM, automatically, Im in freak out mode.

– Jana Kramer

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We were disappointed about the charges themselves. They moved forward on negligent criminal homicide, we were both surprised and relieved to see charges going forward at all. It's been well past the normal time, well over a year since the incident happened. It caught us off guard, but it was a welcome relief.

– Lee Merritt

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It just caught me off guard. I never knew you could get striked for clips, i'm not sure what I'll do when I come back to streaming because music plays a huge part in a lot of people's streams.

– Macaiyla Edwards

Found on CNN
3 years ago

That's why you see that generous' we were all caught off guard' sentiment on the first phase.

– Kristen Soltis Anderson

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I had never seen anything like that, it threw me way off guard. He busted my nose and it started bleeding and then he stepped back and head kicked me.

– Donald Cerrone

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Both Mexico and China seem to have been caught off guard, it's troubling. It does indicate a bit of a pattern on the U.S. side of presenting different agreements than their parties think they agreed to.

– Jorge Guajardo

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This is a big crisis that has certainly got the attention of top (Boehringer) management, big companies like predictability, they like planning, and the one thing that throws us off guard here most is that over the last year, we had to reset expectations multiple times.

– Stephan Lange

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

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