Sentence examples for unfortunate discovery from inspiring English sources

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After much of the construction had been completed, Tufts, a Massachusetts philanthropist, made an unfortunate discovery: he learned that tuberculosis was contagious and was forced to alter his plan and turn his new community into a leisure resort instead.

Confession here: I once used a handgun to shoot a grizzly bear off my leg after making the unfortunate discovery that not all grizzly charges are bluffs.

The unfortunate discovery the researchers made was that that aforementioned "buffer" completely diminished by eighth grade, a year in which there was no significant association between school type and body experience.

The problem with that: both are already in relationships -- with Ron Livingston and Anna Kendrick respectively -- and life is managing to throw them curves that may well lead to the "unfortunate discovery" phase of a relationship well before either have decided whether they're actually in love.

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The unfortunate reality of drug discovery as it is currently practiced is it is a long and costly process.

An unfortunate disagreement over priorities of discovery and naming of certain Early Paleozoic rocks, later to be named Ordovician, broke up the partnership of Murchison and Sedgwick.

A possible reason for the lack of direct applicability of mouse model research for drug discovery is the unfortunate focus on gross phenotypes that may be either at best secondary to the mutation or result from mouse-unique factors that do not scale evolutionarily.

Rather, they say, it was the unfortunate upshot of the "price-discovery process" after the introduction of what proved to be an enduring and important financial product: the limited liability corporation.

And that discovery meant that the unfortunate lady who had had a chopstick thrust through one of her eyes into part of her brain called the inferior prefrontal subcortex (IPS) presented an opportunity.

However, these unfortunate differences in nomenclature predate the discovery that type II secretion systems (T2SS) are evolutionarily related to Tfp, and further support our proposal of a unifying Tff name.

Little does he know that this seemingly short and easy journey will turn into a long, hazardous voyage of discovery, as a series of unfortunate events leads to him to the King's door.

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