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were unforeseeable

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Incapable of being foreseen or anticipated

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Mr. Holbein said that Louisiana's investment problems were unforeseeable.

The terrible consequences, it's true, were unforeseeable at the time, and the Bosnians were surely better off with the airlift than they would have been without it.

I believed in our mission to empower people to conduct private trade on the Internet, but there were unforeseeable challenges lurking deep in those uncharted waters.

The revelation that the two doomed banks were the subject of a risk-planning exercise five years ago calls into question the idea that the run on Northern Rock and later banking crisis were unforeseeable.

He said he acted "stupidly, not criminally — not from my heart". He blamed the failure of his companies on the 2008 financial collapse and a banking crisis in Ukraine, among other events he said were unforeseeable.

In examining disasters like the Challenger explosion and the near-meltdown at Three Mile Island, Perrow argued that while the events were unforeseeable they were also, in some sense, inevitable, because of the complexity and the interconnectedness of the systems involved.

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And what endures is unforeseeable.

He has said that the resulting financial crisis was unforeseeable, which is wrong.

As cruelly inevitable as the earthquake was unforeseeable, winter may be an even bigger disaster.

The consequences, for Catalonia and for Spain, are unforeseeable but potentially highly damaging.

"The cost in blood and treasure is immense, and the outcome is unforeseeable.

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