Unannounced

Quick meaning: Unannounced is an adjective meaning Not announced beforehand.

Meaning

Not announced beforehand.

Example Sentences

It was one out several unannounced home visits the teachers would make to check-in with students who had been severely disengaged while online learning during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Major Stations category is keenly contested, with 24 other large city centre termini and major rail hub stations all vying for recognition. As ever, the NRA's expert panel of judges visited each as unannounced mystery shoppers.

In 2008, she was at times criticized for being detached from voters, insulated in a bubble of staff and security and avoiding spontaneity. She began her 2016 campaign by riding 16 hours in a van from New York to Iowa, making unannounced stops at gas stations and fast-food restaurants, before arriving for what was billed as a series of low-key conversations with a handful of voters.

But soon one notices, first in ones and twos, and then in larger groups, men who are very much alive at this hour in the morning, the sorters for the Caledonian, and Edinburgh sections of the "Down Special"; mail is piled high on the platforms, and the postal men glance occasionally towards the platform intermediate signals. By this time the calling-on arm is pulled off, and a few minutes later in comes the train, unannounced by the loud-speakers, to the mystification of many travellers.

Synonyms for unannounced

Depending on context, synonyms include unexpected, unheralded, unpredicted.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include unpredicted, unheralded, unexpected, unanticipated, unintended, unplanned.

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