A sudden meeting vs Unexpected meeting

Both 'a sudden meeting' and 'unexpected meeting' are correct and commonly used phrases in English. They convey a similar meaning of a meeting that occurs without prior notice or anticipation.

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A sudden meeting

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used to describe a meeting that happens quickly or unexpectedly, without prior planning or notice.

Examples:

I had a sudden meeting with my boss this morning.
The team had a sudden meeting to discuss the new project.
She received a call for a sudden meeting with the client.

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It happens all the time: long, tiresome travel, a moment of distraction or a sudden meeting with a road-hog - and suddenly you end up in a crash.
Having arrived home, I right there told the wife great news: so a pier and so - matter, good luck, a sudden meeting with the aunty's relative in Brisk, it to me an arrangement, etc.
Their full-time has a sudden meeting
Come on, Harvard Law, federal clerkship, and a sudden passion for union meetings?
The culture which this long and careful growth produced was not prepared for the sudden meeting with another people, with different customs and traditions, who came to your country nearly 200 years ago.
Jackson's own account records that his first reaction to this sudden meeting was to assume the figure to be a shipwrecked sailor, perhaps from the expedition's supply ship Windward which was due to call that summer.
I have... this... sudden meeting, you know?
Just for the objective of meeting the sudden variations of the market demand, TG carries large stocks of raw materials, sub-assemblies and semi-finished products.
And then, all of a sudden, you request a meeting.
He died in Paris at a government meeting of a sudden and unanticipated cardiac arrest.
All of a sudden, these sworn enemies, who were only seconds before fighting one other, were meeting in no-man's land between the trenches.
All of a sudden, these sworn enemies, who were only seconds before fighting one other, were meeting in no-man's land between the trenches.
Why are we having a meeting all of a sudden?
All of a sudden, I'm late for a meeting that I was early for in the first place.
Do they expect that, in their miserable worlds, all of a sudden signage will appear indicating the "meeting point in case of apocalypse?"
All of a sudden something happened.
This is a sudden and miraculous change of opinion.
Likewise, preserves a sudden death.
Such a sudden release is not easily achieved.
Possibly this is a sudden sunrise after a sudden sunset that Saturday August 27, 29 AD.

Alternatives:

an impromptu meeting
an unplanned meeting
an unforeseen meeting
an abrupt meeting
a surprise meeting

Unexpected meeting

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used to describe a meeting that occurs without being foreseen or predicted, catching someone by surprise.

Examples:

I had an unexpected meeting with the CEO today.
The team gathered for an unexpected meeting after the incident.
She was called in for an unexpected meeting with the board members.

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In the third one I had a unexpected meeting with Alberto, Angelo and Claudio from Mantua's Vespaclub when I stopped in a restaurant in Palazzetto for lunch on the way to Siena.
An unexpected meeting of dresses and jewels, linked by the common search for shapes and colours, inspired by nature, art, geometry and architecture.
That unexpected meeting: a deadly, death, itself, physically represented, and the devil, an old and familiar fellow human being.
Only then, when his world starts falling apart and everything seems to be lost, the unexpected meeting with an old Hollywood star changes his worldview.
Tiziana, wait a few minutes, then tell them I had an unexpected meeting.
An unexpected meeting as it happens so often on our road.
Fortunately, a trip to the Orient and an unexpected meeting with Master Ryu Kenden changed his life.
During an exhibition in Bologna, an unexpected meeting on the elevator totally changes her life.
Nevertheless, given the unexpected meeting, insisted for me to listen but in vain, the Martini, is justified by saying that he went in a hurry because he was waiting for an opening at the Don Calabria.
Why this unexpected meeting?
Our ship gives to Fefè (Raffaele di Ruzza's nickname - translator's note) and me a good feeling.At boarding time another most appreciated also if unexpected meeting makes me more happy.

Alternatives:

a surprise meeting
a sudden meeting
an impromptu meeting
an unplanned meeting
an unforeseen meeting

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