unknown to

idiom

: without being known about by (someone)

Unknown to me, my partner was organizing a surprise party for my birthday.

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Then there are parts of the government that are practically unknown to the outside world—Biden remade many of those, too. —

Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024 Unlike Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, which burned out in primetime because of overuse (but found a loyal audience for a number of years in daytime syndication), Greed was abruptly canceled by Fox after just one season for reasons unknown to this writer. —

Marc Berman, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024 And one of their survey blocks which was intended to map trees had actually mapped trees growing on top of a really large Maya city that was previously unknown to the scientific community. —

Anna Lagos, WIRED, 2 Nov. 2024 Enjoying life as a car salesman and family man, his past life is unknown to his wife (Monaghan) and kids (Colletti, Crosby). —

Matt Grobar, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for unknown to