How to Use unprepared in a Sentence
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Opinion Covid is back, and the U.S. is unprepared for the next bug.
— Editorial Board, Washington Post, 17 June 2024 -
No one is going to come to the Olympics and catch a Katie Ledecky unprepared.
— Paul Newberry, Anchorage Daily News, 26 July 2021 -
Invest now to make sure the world is not caught unprepared again.
— Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2024 -
Fans flocked to the chain restaurant to try the hack but the stores were unprepared for the orders and could not fulfill all the requests.
— Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 16 Mar. 2023 -
So the cycle will start anew: At some point, the virus will take a turn for the worse, and the country will again be unprepared for it.
— Saahil Desai, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2022 -
Gaye showed up for the session with his golf clubs, late and unprepared, and nailed the song in one perfect take.
— Gavin Edwards, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2022 -
The three men were unprepared to bring Johnson’s body down.
— John Branch, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2023 -
Rush was unprepared for the force employed by Chief Lee.
— CBS News, 27 Apr. 2022 -
The result will be a track meet that the kids from Houston are wholly unprepared for.
— Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 30 Oct. 2022 -
This may be true, but the day after has a habit of sneaking up while the parties are unprepared.
— Dahlia Scheindlin, The New Republic, 3 Nov. 2023 -
The current system is old and unprepared for the future.
— BostonGlobe.com, 6 Jan. 2023 -
Because people were unprepared for the rainstorm, some tourists were trapped in the city.
— Larissa Gao, NBC News, 8 Sep. 2023 -
There's long been a roughness to his strumming that can be off-putting for the unprepared, but that's part of the charm of a Willie Nelson show.
— Piet Levy, Journal Sentinel, 19 May 2024 -
The 60-year-old didn’t arrive at work in the middle of Europe’s heat wave unprepared.
— Morgan Meaker, Wired, 2 Aug. 2022 -
The school and the school district were woefully unprepared, the report found.
— Lucien Bruggeman, ABC News, 18 Jan. 2024 -
Two teens got caught up in a system unprepared to handle kids on either side of the drug trade.
— Lizzie Presser, ProPublica, 28 Sep. 2024 -
And that was when the call came in to 911, of a hiker in distress, trapped on the side of a cliff and unprepared to deal with the dangerous conditions.
— CBS News, 9 July 2021 -
Know your neighbors: So many Texans were unprepared for the storm.
— Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Nov. 2021 -
Ill equipped and unprepared to counter such a force, many surrendered.
— Michael Kofman, Foreign Affairs, 2 Sep. 2024 -
Each time, the platform was unprepared to respond to what its users were doing.
— Shane Harris, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2023 -
People waited for hours in queues to see the canyon and many were unprepared for the hike, resulting in injuries.
— CBS News, 8 Feb. 2023 -
To be unprepared for the elements in 2022 is to be out of touch, decadent in a bad way, or—worse!—some sort of influencer.
— Richard Godwin, Travel + Leisure, 26 Feb. 2022 -
Diplomatic staff in many cities were unprepared for the long lines of expats.
— Christine Armario, Washington Post, 27 July 2024 -
Most people were unprepared when the 2004 tsunami hit South Asia.
— Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 6 June 2023 -
As the new rule came into effect Wednesday, tourists who came to the Paris landmark unprepared lined up for quick virus tests at the site.
— Star Tribune, 23 July 2021 -
Maybe that’s why so many people were caught unprepared.
— Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Sep. 2022 -
The quake sent tremors across the two countries while residents were likely asleep and unprepared for the impact.
— Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 6 Feb. 2023 -
So the people coming to save them are untrained and unprepared.
— Lindsay Kornick, Fox News, 21 June 2022 -
Historic levels of rain and wind hit the unprepared mountainous area, which is farther inland and not often exposed to such weather events.
— Doha Madani, NBC News, 15 Oct. 2024 -
Authorities seemed unprepared and overwhelmed, quickly running out of supplies and scrambling to find more buses to transport people.
— Atika Shubert, CNN, 3 Nov. 2024
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