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unannounced

adjective

Definition of unannouncednext
1
as in undisclosed

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2
as in unexpected

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Recent Examples of unannounced That May, the two men were sitting together when Kushner walked in unannounced and asked his father-in-law to keep Christie off the team. — Dexter Filkins, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026 There was a time, not that long ago, when the average suburban street was full of unannounced drop-ins, the smell of burning charcoal, and scattered lawn chairs. — John Mac Ghlionn, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2026 Instead, select a narrow, high-ROI operational challenge, such as predicting transformer degradation or detecting unannounced EV chargers. — Abhay Gupta, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2026 Reeves will also produce with Alexandra Grant via Two Dragonflies, with the project marking the first to emerge from his new, previously unannounced production banner. — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 9 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for unannounced
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unannounced
  1. undisclosed
  2. unexpected
  3. unmentioned
  4. unanticipated
  5. unadvertised
  6. unforeseen
  7. confidential
  8. startling
Adjective
  • Speaking at Semafor’s The Next 3 Billion summit in New York, Samaila Zubairu said the AFC engaged directly with Senegal’s new administration after the discovery of undisclosed loans under the prior government sent public debt past 130% of GDP.
    — Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Kathryn Hunter, John Ratzenberger, and Jamie Costa will also voice as-yet-undisclosed characters.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of undisclosed
Adjective
  • The deaths were sudden and unexpected as their health wavered amid the challenges of adjusting to a new home, according to statements from the aquariums.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2026
  • This is not the first time that Martin has surprised fans with an unexpected performance.
    — Jack Guy, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of unexpected
Adjective
  • Left unmentioned is that the bulky bill also tries to tamp down realignment by capping conferences at 19 members and allows conferences to bundle their media rights.
    — Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026
  • The Wiener Werkstätte’s undue obscurity may have something to do with not only those epistolary expressions of skepticism by the founding fathers of the Frankfurt School, but also Hoffmann’s latter-day Nazism, which in this show goes unmentioned.
    — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of unmentioned
Adjective
  • More gets lost when implementation hits an unanticipated constraint.
    — Lorenzo Alvaro, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2026
  • The eight-hour, first-time homebuyer course teaches the basics of all the hidden and unanticipated costs that come with purchasing a home, while a separate one-on-one session prepares buyers to understand basic bookkeeping and finance.
    — Melanie Stetson Freeman, Christian Science Monitor, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of unanticipated
Adjective
  • Between 70-80% of job opportunities exist as unadvertised positions.
    — Sho Dewan, Forbes.com, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Then, without warning, some of those same fans got emails last week about the previously unadvertised sale.
    — Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2026
Definition of unadvertised
Adjective
  • With a concept that is like a twisted version of The Parent Trap, director Trudie Styler‘s sly comedy with drama shows what happens when the messy unforeseen circumstances of life and death interrupt a nasty divorce.
    — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 17 Sep. 2026
  • In addition, there are unforeseen circumstances that could prompt the use of Flex Alerts and rolling outages in limited areas.
    — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of unforeseen
Adjective
  • Grand jury proceedings are kept confidential to allow people to testify freely without worrying about consequences and so that the subjects of an investigation are not unfairly tainted before the jury can decide whether to file charges against them.
    — Jeffrey Schweers, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Sep. 2026
  • The two sides reached a confidential settlement in 2019 without a ruling on the merits of his claim.
    — Jackson Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of confidential
Adjective
  • Still, nothing in the war has seemed as startling or as consequential as their breakneck assault last week, which centered on the capture of Mokha, a major port city on the Red Sea, and Perim, a tiny island at the southern entrance to the waterway.
    — Kareem Fahim, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Back then the age of discovery was at its peak, and startling new information about what had previously been a very parochial planet was flooding into the academies of Europe and the Americas.
    — Ian Tattersall, The New York Review of Books, 19 Sep. 2026
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“Unannounced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unannounced. Accessed 27 Sep. 2026.

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