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unplanned — un|planned [ ,ʌn plænd ] adjective not intended or expected: an unplanned pregnancy a. happening without careful planning: Unplanned growth is a major problem in the world s largest cities … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
unplanned — UK [ʌnˈplænd] / US [ˌʌnˈplænd] adjective a) not intended or expected an unplanned pregnancy b) happening without careful planning Unplanned growth is a major problem in the world s largest cities … English dictionary
quirk — I (accident) noun accidental occurrence casualty, chance, circumstance, fate, fortuitous event, fortuity, freak, hap, inadvertence, luck, misadventure, mischance, mishap, nonintentional occurrence, turn, twist, undesigned occurrence, unforeseen… … Law dictionary
chance — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Fortuity Nouns 1. chance, accident, lot; fate, kismet, karma (See destiny); Lady Luck, [Dame] Fortune; luck, fortune, hap, hazard; contingency, adventure, fortuity; randomness, indetermination,… … English dictionary for students
literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… … Universalium
random — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. haphazard, casual, chance, fortuitous, aimless. Ant., planned, expected, foreseen. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. haphazard, chance, casual, arbitrary, desultory, aimless, indiscriminate, irregular,… … English dictionary for students
HISTORICAL SURVEY: THE STATE AND ITS ANTECEDENTS (1880–2006) — Introduction It took the new Jewish nation about 70 years to emerge as the State of Israel. The immediate stimulus that initiated the modern return to Zion was the disappointment, in the last quarter of the 19th century, of the expectation that… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Counterculture of the 1960s — The Peace Sign, designed and first used in Britain in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, became a major symbol of the counterculture era The counterculture of the 1960s refers to a cultural movement that mainly developed in the United States… … Wikipedia
chance — 1 noun 1 POSSIBILITY (C, U) how possible or likely it is that something will happen, especially something that you want: chance/chances of: What are her chances of survival? | there s a chance (that): There s always the chance that something will … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
Shoot (professional wrestling) — In professional wrestling, a shoot refers to any unplanned event ndash; that is, an event that is real and not staged. The term originally referred to a takedown in amateur wrestling; this was adapted to mean a legitimate attack or fight (as… … Wikipedia
