Antonyms for unforeseenun·fore·seen

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1. unanticipated, unforeseen, unlooked-for, out of the blue(p)adjective

   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"

   Antonyms:
   expected

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1. sure

   Submitted by aniesia_t on September 10, 2020  

How to use unforeseen in a sentence?

1. David Mamet:

   The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.

2. Brian Kemp:

   As home prices skyrocket across the country, local property tax bills here in Georgia are hitting homeowners especially hard, for families struggling to make ends meet, I know that higher bills in the mail can force cutting back on other household necessities. For young Georgians just getting settled into their first home or parents who are sending their kids off to college, unforeseen jumps in property values and local tax bills over the last year only add to the uncertain times that we are in.

3. Dan Quayle:

   We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.

4. Scott Boras:

   We’ve had an interruption in our sport which was unforeseen and lengthy and when you look back at our bargaining history, there’s not been an interruption of that length in modern time, and for those reasons, I think the clarity of each side’s advances is something that is going to be measured within the framework of the recent influence of the pandemic on baseball.

5. Jiang Dehua:

   We could not just pull the screwdriver out – that could have caused unforeseen complications – so we eventually convinced the parents to let us operate.

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