unexpectedly

unexpected | American Dictionary

unexpected
adjective
us/ˌʌn·ɪkˈspek·tɪd/
not expected; surprising:
What an unexpected treat to meet you here!

Examples of unexpected

unexpected
One of the particular strengths of qualitative research is its capacity to generate unexpected findings.
Moreover, in a liberal democracy with a well-developed private sector, would-be hegemonic efforts to extend the party's influence through society can have unexpected results.
This reduced responsiveness on the part of the children was an unexpected finding.
A theoretical explanation of these unexpected findings seems in order.
Future studies may address whether unexpected ionic or molecular selectivities appear in the substates.
However, the stochastic nature of impulse trains leads to some unexpected effects in retinal coding.
Nevertheless, contract enforcement needs permanent adaptation to unexpected situations.
Even if a pattern is deemed to be unexpected and valid, it may not be possible to act upon it.
It is interesting that this distinction receives empirical support from an unexpected direction.
Moreover, these memory errors were consistently decreased by the negative symptoms reflecting lack of emotion or social interactions, although this observation was unexpected.
Thus, their relatively large frequency (4% of all consonants) in early canonical babbling was unexpected, though still much lower than adult frequencies.
The detection of unexpected coherent echoes by incoherent scatter radars raises important questions concerning the generation mechanisms that spill over into coherent radars.
This was not unexpected given the oversampling of elderly respondents in the first wave.
One of the advantages of using evolutionary algorithms is that they can discover solutions that are unexpected by the implementer of the evolutionary system.
Most people suggested a combination of spending some resources in retirement and saving some for unexpected events later on.
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