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were unannounced
adjective
Not announced beforehand.
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All three of the visits were unannounced and featured extensive security.
"I thought I was being asked if there were unannounced changes to superannuation and we've already made the announcements of the changes we're going to make," Shorten said.
The report concluded that the industry's own audits were inadequate to protect the public and that unless audits were unannounced, they were of little value.
There were unannounced but far from secret performances by Metallica (touting its Guitar Hero video game), Kanye West and the original lineup of Jane's Addiction.
"Inspections were unannounced, but in many cases labor groups alleged that factory owners in collusion with inspectors received advance warning," according to the U.S. State Department's 2011 report on human rights.
(He acknowledged that he made other appearances while the convention was going on, including on O'Reilly, but said they weren't a distraction from the convention because they were unannounced and "nobody even knew" he would be appearing).
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The time was unannounced.
The last three are unannounced but are probable holiday entries.
"It was unannounced, unprovoked, completely out of the blue".
Ministers should consider whether future inspections should always be unannounced.
There will be another in the spring, it says, and this one will be "unannounced".
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