unforeseen

CEFRB2

/ˌʌnfɔːˈsiːn/

adjective

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Barring anything unforeseen everything should turn all right.
Due to unforeseen circumstances, tonight's meeting has been cancelled until further notice.

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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Unfortunately, many of the unforeseens are created by the client.
1997, Gerry Souter, Buying and Selling Multimedia Services, page 25
In this connection it will not be overstressed that, so far as the vision accorded the prophets of the Old Testament is concerned, there was in the program for Israel, as predicted, no separation between the two advents. But for the Church intercalation—which was wholly unforeseen and is wholly unrelated to any divine purpose which precedes it or which follows it—Israel would be expected to pass directly from the crucifixion to her kingdom; for it was not the death of Christ and His resurrection which demanded the postponement, but rather an unforeseen age.
1948, Lewis Sperry Chafer, “The Messianic Kingdom of Christ Incarnate”, in Systematic Theology, volume V (Religion), Dallas, Texas: Dallas Seminary Press, published 1964, →OCLC, pages 348–349

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From un- + foreseen.