unforeseeable

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In short this observation of career disparity could be reversed after several decades of unforeseeable future occurring.

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Incapable of being foreseen or anticipated.

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adjective

Incapable of being foreseen or anticipated.

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Core meanings and parts of speech for unforeseeable.

adjective

Incapable of being foreseen or anticipated.

Example sentences

In short this observation of career disparity could be reversed after several decades of unforeseeable future occurring.

The hallmark of real intelligence / creativity will always be that they are eventually unforeseeable and uncontrollable.

For example, if unforeseeable things in your business happen often, you can and should plan for them.

Changing the system (obviously) has a bunch of other obvious (and a bunch of unforeseeable) consequences.

Getting caught after doing that is not exactly an unforeseeable consequence, which means he was probably ready to move on to the next phase anyway, and getting the byline is more valuable to him than maintaining the status quo.

Something as complex as a human body is always going to have some unforeseeable epiphenomenal mode of failure, given enough time.

But that's quite rare - it's more likely to be the founders lack of strategic thinking than an unforeseeable catastrophic event.

Ironically, the goal of her actions was to make sure that his actions would lead to a huge unforeseeable backlash for him.

Insurers are in the business of mitigating risk by paying out on unforeseeable losses.

His unforeseeable future wouldn't be possible because no entity could do it with sufficient resources and will right now according to him.

Reagents expire, lab-cultures will mutate, equipment rusts/breakdowns/gets contaminated for stupid unforeseeable reasons.

Are they incompetent or is this a result of unforeseeable circumstances?

Quote examples

Either on the person who chose the tool, or just chalk it up to the "unforeseeable" and switch to a better tool.

He's of the opinion that Javascript is all we need and is happy to be a "Javascript assembly programmer" for the foreseeable (and perhaps unforeseeable) future.

Somehow, I doubt 35% falls under "unforeseeable".

Being reasonably careful isn't about being a p$ssy, "worrying too much" or eliminating all unforeseeable risks, it's about not letting other people down by dying and causing a loss that really could have been prevented by making other choices.