unexpected place

collocation in English

meaningsofunexpectedandplace

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unexpected
adjective
uk
/ˌʌn.ɪkˈspek.tɪd/us
/ˌʌn.ɪkˈspek.tɪd/
not ...
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place
noun
uk
/pleɪs/us
/pleɪs/
an area, town, ...
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(Definition ofunexpectedandplacefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofunexpected place

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Now that the style has received the attention given it in this volume, however, scholars are likely to find it lurking in the most unexpected places.
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We might possibly have trouble about this matter—unexpected trouble in unexpected places.
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It is very curious that this relic of barbarism, that a belief in this retrograde form of punishment, crops up in the most unexpected places.
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Accidents happen in the most unexpected places and at the most unexpected times.
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The point has been well and truly made that we find this feeling in unexpected places.
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I am grateful for support even when it comes from the mostunexpectedplace.
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This is a mostunexpectedplacefor such a controversy to turn up.
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I speak from a ratherunexpectedplace.
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At that point a storm fell on him from anunexpectedplace.
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The parents of the twins are distraught by the turn of events, unaware of the fact that another tragedy is coming from anunexpectedplace.
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It's not about one concrete thing; it's about searching for meaning and maybe finding it anunexpectedplace.
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It begins with the families receiving the announcement, usually in anunexpectedplacewhere many people are present (and all are in on the surprise).
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This intended arrangement, however, sometimes breaks down in detail, with some material turning up in unexpected places.
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Although both objects were in equally unusual or unexpected places, they prompted quite different types of reaction.
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And because of the difference in our working methods we shall undoubtedly meet from time to time in unexpected places.
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She argues that this novel undercuts a reader's narrative predictions at every turn, "altering plots by putting them in unexpected places" (125).
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As explained earlier, some of the participants furnished the not only in the distracters but also in many unexpected places.
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Successful research communities often flourish in unexpected places because of unique combinations of local and transient conditions and circumstances.
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As this study has attempted to show, the merger is showing up in unexpected places in a single generation and presents challenges for models of the diffusion of linguistic change.
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