How to Use unawares in a Sentence
unawares
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The Blank Page Movement has caught those leaders unawares.
—Christopher Rea and Jeffrey Wasserstrom, CNN, 1 Dec. 2022
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Likewise, thousands of pedestrians walk unawares over dozens of old ships buried beneath the streets of the city’s financial district.
—Greg Miller, National Geographic, 2 June 2017
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The drivers were taken unawares when empty cans and bottles showered them and one driver jumped in his cab and departed.
—Nan Randall, The Atlantic, 25 Jan. 2018
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However, Zhao notes that even if the government has the technology needed to spot such fakes, the public might be caught unawares.
—Will Knight, Wired, 28 May 2021
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Michael Packard was diving off the coast of Provincetown, Massachusetts, Friday, when the capital cetacean caught him unawares.
—Evan Simko-Bednarski, CNN, 11 June 2021
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Here Bluebaum is caught unawares and does not fully appreciate the dangers 3...
—Chris Chase, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2018
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Herbert also said he had been caught unawares by the attorney general’s actions.
—Daedan Olander, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Mar. 2022
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During the second wave, villages in India were caught unawares, with severe underreporting of both cases and Covid-19 deaths.
—Amanda Shendruk, Quartz, 21 Sep. 2021
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Sure enough, Trinity was caught unawares, and audiences everywhere were gagged.
—Stephen Daw, Billboard, 2 July 2018
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Lawmakers in Arizona also appear to have been caught unawares by the Trump announcement, according to the Arizona Republic.
—Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 25 Nov. 2020
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At a Republican rally in August, Johnson was caught unawares by Windsor, who quizzed him about the 2020 presidential contest.
—Daniel Bice, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Nov. 2021
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The Senate, seemingly caught unawares, initially refused to accept delivery of the subpoenaed material for lack of a secure place to store it.
—BostonGlobe.com, 25 Apr. 2021
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China was caught unawares by a disease that was evidently spreading for a month or more in Wuhan before anyone noticed; the country’s frantic learning now is helping save the lives everywhere of the sickest cases.
—Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2020
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Its violent, zero-to-hero power delivery could catch drivers unawares, knocking the car off-balance, then frequently backwards into a hedge.
—Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 15 Dec. 2022
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On the other hand, Newcastle don't have a shortlist of managers prepared at all say the Times, with Benitez's impending departure catching them unawares, despite, y'know, being quite a while coming and very, very obvious.
—SI.com, 25 June 2019
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His figures are fully animated, sometimes laugh-out-loud funny and often, when captured unawares, deeply moving in their private reveries.
—Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2020
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The career of Marco Bellocchio has been extensive, fertile, and constantly capable of taking us unawares.
—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 15 July 2022
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From my perspective, there’s no excuse for being caught unawares, and clinging to the easier or cheaper option is a far riskier business decision than exploring other avenues now.
—Sjoerd Fauser, Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022
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But it’s here in the good old U.S. of A. that Azerbaijan has had the greatest success covertly influencing policy and policymakers, with both constituents and regulators caught unawares.
—Casey Michel, The New Republic, 26 Jan. 2022
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To deter customers from doing research—to reconstruct the gloriously profitable world of information asymmetry—companies need to catch them unawares.
—Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
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