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unexpected

adj
/ʌnɪkˈspɛktɪd/US

Etymology

From un- + expected.

Definitions

  1. Not expected, anticipated or foreseen.

    • Certainly unexpected. The P[awn] is overprotected to the best taste of a Nimzowitsch devotee, and there seems to be no drastic weakness in White's camp to justify this intrusion.
    • But the latest Santa Fe development, while not spurring the Rock Island to any further acceleration, has drawn fire from a totally unexpected quarter.

  2. Someone or something unexpected.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at unexpected. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at unexpected. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at unexpected

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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