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Collocations for unexpected - adj.

VERBS

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ADVERB

most, very
Help came from a most unexpected quarter.
completely, quite, totally, wholly
not entirely
His death was not entirely unexpected.
a little, rather, somewhat
It happened in rather unexpected circumstances.

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Unexpected is used with these nouns:
appearance, arrival, benefit, bonus, boost, change, compliment, consequence, death, delay, delight, depth, development, direction, discovery, emergency, encounter, expense, failure, fall, find, finding, guest, hazard, kindness, meeting, move, occurrence, outcome, resignation, return, setback, side effect, sight, source, spin-off, strength, success, surge, surprise, treasure, turn, twist, victory, visit, visitor, win, windfall, winner

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