unsuspected

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Recent Examples of unsuspected Michell and Bailey, together with their helpers and rivals, use diary entries, letters, and poetry written by Ash, LaMotte, and people connected with them, to unearth the previously unsuspected relationship between the poets. Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 Mar. 2026 An enormous but unsuspected hive After some hours the authorities were able to work out what had happened. Elizabeth Weise, USA Today, 16 May 2025 There’s a beautiful lilting rhythm to the story’s developments as the centrality of each of the four principal characters keeps shifting, often showing unsuspected sides of them. David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019 Further investigation showed that the projector optics included a previously unsuspected UV filter incorporated into a block of glass that protects the rest of the system in case the projector’s bulb explodes. Paul Wallich, IEEE Spectrum, 24 June 2016 See All Example Sentences for unsuspected
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsuspected
Adjective
  • The company said commercial remaining performance obligations, a measure of unearned revenue and unrecognized revenue, increased 8% to $678 billion from the previous quarter.
    Jordan Novet, CNBC, 29 July 2026
  • The challenge hinges on whether claimants were born Italians with unrecognized citizenship, as previous case law had ruled.
    Julia Buckley, CNN Money, 25 July 2026
Adjective
  • Einstein and relativity The early modern physicist Isaac Newton had presumed an unperceived yet real flow of time.
    Adrian Bardon, The Conversation, 12 Nov. 2025
  • Marina, in economics, conveyed a lesson just as direct, but as yet unperceived.
    Brian Domitrovic, Forbes.com, 19 July 2025
Adjective
  • The cargo vessel struck by an unknown projectile in the Strait of Hormuz north of Oman suffered a complete blackout, according to a report from the Marisks maritime risk management group.
    Hanna Ziady, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026
  • For those with diabetes, that often means going open source and assuming some unknown risks.
    Dana P. Goldman, STAT, 4 Aug. 2026

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“Unsuspected.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsuspected. Accessed 11 Aug. 2026.

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