How to Use unintended in a Sentence

unintended

adjective

• The unintended consequences of more than a decade of easy money are still lurking in the wings.
  — Alan Murray, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2023
• None of this is cheap, and the risks of unintended consequences — and questions about whether these ideas even work — loom large.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Apr. 2024
• Friends who arrived at my door teary-eyed forced the unintended response of me having to grieve with them on their timetable, rather than my own.
  — Alisyn Camerota, CNN, 12 Oct. 2024
• That can cause a lot of unintended consequences and risks.
  — Byjohn Kell, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2024
• Change is coming, and even changes made for the best of reasons have unintended consequences.
  — Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 31 Dec. 2022
• The defect can cause damage over time that results in unintended movement in the cars while in park if the parking brake is not engaged.
  — Samantha Delouya, CNN, 29 Mar. 2024
• The world ships too much code, most of it by third parties, sometimes unintended, most of it uninspected.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 6 Feb. 2024
• But the change may have had an unintended consequence, as the aerosols were helping to reflect some sunlight away from Earth.
  — Hayley Smith Los Angeles Times (tns), al, 15 Aug. 2023
• The Chinese side regrets the unintended entry of the airship into US airspace due to force majeure.
  — Andrew Daniels, Popular Mechanics, 4 Feb. 2023
• Policy that doesn’t will at best fall short of its goals, and at worst lead to dire, if unintended, consequences.
  — Fei-Fei Li, Fortune, 6 Aug. 2024
• This change is painful for those women who have unintended pregnancy, many will face a hard life.
  — Fox News, 25 June 2022
• But over time, the lack of boundaries and limits can have unintended consequences.
  — Christin Perry, Parents, 17 Aug. 2023
• The pre-chorus and tag gave the chorus a subtle, and unintended, symmetry.
  — Tom Roland, Billboard, 26 July 2023
• But sometimes, our desire to do the right thing leads to unintended consequences.
  — Stephanie Dillon, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2023
• Since the writers strike began on May 2, the unintended consequences of the ramp-up in series production during the past dozen years have been laid bare.
  — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 11 July 2023
• This arbitration is at the heart of many of the law’s unintended consequences.
  — T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 28 June 2024
• This unintended turn of events would be pivotal to Mani’s later achievements and legacy.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 6 Oct. 2023
• This is one of the unintended consequences of the media and public’s fascination with the subject.
  — John Blake, CNN, 3 Feb. 2024
• Overall, the danger is that the plan would result in unintended consequences.
  — Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Sep. 2023
• Count that among the unintended consequences of the still-early NIL marketplace.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 6 Aug. 2023
• An unintended consequence was that one of the best trash-talking rivalries in sports lost some of its luster.
  — James Wagner, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2022
• In which case, Twitter’s high water mark was an unintended consequence of years of stasis in the product.
  — Christopher Mims, WSJ, 5 Nov. 2022
• Some of the changes were going to be entirely predictable, but the unintended consequences were still unknown.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2023
• Is there an unintended consequence of a constitutional amendment passed last week that wipes out all of the rules on bail bonds?
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 17 Nov. 2022
• This year Rossignol removed the shiny varnish from the ski, which had both intended and unintended results.
  — Stephanie Pearson, Outside Online, 8 Oct. 2024
• But The Washington Post reports that the city’s plan to raise millions to aid the neediest residents of the city has had unintended consequences.
  — Justin Ray, Robb Report, 3 July 2023
• Various unintended consequences of the pitch clock have surfaced over the first week of the major league baseball season.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2023
• This is also an area where unintended gender bias can come into play.
  — Dallas News, 10 Aug. 2022
• ScriptLeaksR6 also notes that this kind of data shuffling has the unintended side effect of stopping stat tracking.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 17 Nov. 2022
• Once a victim has been tricked into connecting their wallet to the drainer, they are then manipulated into approving one or a few transactions that grant attackers unintended access to all the funds in the wallet.
  — Matt Burgess, WIRED, 12 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024