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How to use the word unexpected in a Sentence? Page #7

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Some people will not respond to reason. Others refuse to consider alternatives to their normal pattern of behavior. In such cases, an unexpected breaking of one’s own patterns can be an effective tool.

Timothy Zahn

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6 years ago

Things got off to an unexpected start at day one of Fyre Festival, thank you for bearing with us as we work through the growing pains that every first year event experiences.

Fyre Festival

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7 years ago

It can be extraordinarily emotional as one wants to save the life of their spouse, yet also be aware that events can happen that could create unexpected tragedies as well.

David Mulligan

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

In the end, we believe this episode, accompanied by Zeke's own remarkable writing and speaking on the subject, has provided an unexpected but important dialogue about acceptance and treating transgender people with respect. i wanted the world to see how much I'd grown and I also thought by showing what happened, maybe it wouldn't happen to someone else and something good could come of it.

Zeke Smith

Found on CNN
7 years ago

It makes me realize the importance and the role that art and illustration can play when it comes to social issues, it was something that was totally unexpected.

Malika Favre

Found on CNN
7 years ago

There is a cliffhanger, he didn't die an old man. He didn't live a long, long life... it's sudden, it's unexpected, it's very tragic.

Justin Hartley

Found on CNN
7 years ago

It's never easy, but anything worth having is usually something you have to work for, i've definitely faced unexpected challenges, but I'm not going to be the first or the last person or athlete to overcome health issues to be their best so I look at it as something that hopefully encourages other people who are having chronic health issues.

Venus Williams

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7 years ago

The tolerated Assyrians were those Assyrians who have accepted their unexpected guests to become the permanent residency of their homeland and yet they are not even the guest of another homeland?

Assyrian Proverb

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7 years ago

Balance well those things important in life, family, friends, relationships and health, for not doing so can lay unexpected land mines in your journey to success.” Andreas Simic

Andreas Simic

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7 years ago

The whole wire system of the brain could be disconnected in a spark of a second by a sometimes unsignificant detail. An unexpected incident or an innocuous phone call may provoke an ethereal distress that might plunge one’s life into chaos and like a sudden twist of fate overturn everything, ransacking the assembled experiences of our history. (“Alors, tout a basculé”)

Erik Pevernagie

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7 years ago

I tell anyone who is traveling out of the country on any sort of leisure (or business) trip to purchase travel insurance, i was really convinced by the EMS folks who transported me from Panama to Florida. After talking with them and realizing how often they evacuated folks out of unexpected situations, I realized it was pretty foolish to travel all these years without travel insurance.

Brian Major

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It’s a variety of documents, from different types of institutions that are associated with the election campaign, some quite unexpected angles, some quite interesting, some even entertaining.

Julian Assange

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Life is a mysterious adventure full of unexpected happenings and captivating episodes with intriguing revelations. We just have to squeeze it gently and enjoy each drop. That is philosophy. (( "Waiting for the pieces to fall into place" )

Erik Pevernagie

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7 years ago

However, most female service members are not trained to serve in combat roles ; invariably, many get exposed to significant, unexpected combat-related traumatic events, therefore, female service members are at significant risk for combat-related PTSD during deployments.

Alan Peterson

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7 years ago

In our life journey, the unexpected may remind us or surprise us. It may remind us when we are moved by things we think we recognize and give us a good feeling. It may surprise us when we find out things which open a new vision on the world and offer us an unforeseen experience. ( "Looking for the unexpected" )

Erik Pevernagie

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7 years ago

The market is back to trading fundamentals, the acreage increase in corn was unexpected, the acreage increase in spring wheat was unexpected. The world is well supplied in feed grains right now.

Greg Grow

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

At the end of the day, no military assets were ever moving toward Benghazi, but for the bravery of a few Americans and the unexpected response of Qaddafi’s underground militia … there would have been an even greater loss of life that night.

Martha Roby

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

This is absolutely unexpected.

Norihiro Fujito

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The Heckelman site is unlike anything found in the lower Great Lakes of the United States, most contemporary sites in Ohio focused on burial ceremonies and the building of mounds. To find evidence of life celebrations is an unexpected and exciting discovery. It gives us surprising insights about these prehistoric Ohioans that lived nearly 2,300 years ago.

Brian Redmond

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7 years ago

Any changes to our current 2016 global demand outlook are now more likely to be upwards than downwards, as gasoline demand grows strongly in nearly every key market, more than offsetting weakness in middle distillates, slower demand growth in OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries is not unexpected; it represents a return to the norm.

The IEA

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7 years ago

We shouldn't ever think we know what's next. The only thing we can anticipate is the unexpected.

Steve Krausz

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8 years ago

With the death of Justice Scalia, this outcome was not unexpected.

Terry Pell

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Everybody just needs a little happiness and joy in unexpected places.

Lori Gregory

Found on CNN
8 years ago

These unexpected findings pave the way for further research into the SCARB1 pathway to identify new treatments to reduce heart attacks in the future.

Peter Weissberg

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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