as in oblivious
not informed about or aware of something
she was unaware of the change in travel plans
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as in suddenly
without warning
the predawn attack took the airmen completely unaware
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Recent Examples of unaware
Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
At a recent job on the roof of San Francisco's City Hall, the 25-foot pole swayed on a still day during Kells' climb as unaware residents walked by four stories below.
—Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2024
Moyano was unaware that the Chevrolet was equipped with an Apple AirTag tracking device.
—Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2024
Hazard is not unaware of the sudden institutional interest in the practice of weaving, historically dismissed.
—Carlos Valladares, ARTnews.com, 28 Oct. 2024
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Adjective
The bad news then is that the preponderance of users is blindly unaware of this rather significant consideration when using generative AI, namely that the answers are not 100% certain all the time.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
At a recent job on the roof of San Francisco's City Hall, the 25-foot pole swayed on a still day during Kells' climb as unaware residents walked by four stories below.
—Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2024
Moyano was unaware that the Chevrolet was equipped with an Apple AirTag tracking device.
—Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2024
Hazard is not unaware of the sudden institutional interest in the practice of weaving, historically dismissed.
—Carlos Valladares, ARTnews.com, 28 Oct. 2024
See all Example Sentences for unaware
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unaware
Adjective
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As much as parents may think their children are oblivious, research shows kids, including very young ones, are paying attention.Vox Staff, Vox, 6 Nov. 2024
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However, people were oblivious of its presence on Guam until 1953, and still unaware of its deadly rapid spread until much later.Scott Travers, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
Adjective
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Donald Trump, so ignorant of the past and so careless about the future, is a present-tense kind of candidate.Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2024
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Was an ancient reptile, for all intents and purposes a 15-million-year-old dinosaur, actually roaming this expanse of creosote scrub, subsisting on beavertail cactus flesh, going about her day ignorant of the weather alerts, the headlines, the untold human tragedies?Outside Online, Outside Online, 23 Oct. 2024
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Mbaye, who now lives in Texas, told me about Diop’s passion for seeing the city from a lighthouse, and catching it unawares at dawn.Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2024
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An early freeze that catches a tree unawares can do the same or can cause its leaves to turn straight from green to brown before falling off.Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 18 Oct. 2024
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“Unaware.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unaware. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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