as in unusually
in an unexpected way
The kids were surprisingly well-behaved during the sleepover. The restaurant's food was affordable and surprisingly delicious.
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Recent Examples of surprisingly
Mixtiles has created a surprisingly fun answer.
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Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 9 Feb. 2026
The room-service burger, made with beef from Atlantis’s own breed of cow, was surprisingly good.
—Laura Ratliff, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Feb. 2026
While several key players are already months into their rehabilitation from serious injuries – Nick Bosa, Fred Warner and Mykel Williams – their offensive catalyst sounds surprisingly refreshed only a few weeks after the season.
—Cam Inman, Mercury News, 8 Feb. 2026
Not surprisingly, Musk envisions a shorter timeline.
—Hannah Parker, NBC news, 8 Feb. 2026
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Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 9 Feb. 2026
The room-service burger, made with beef from Atlantis’s own breed of cow, was surprisingly good.
—Laura Ratliff, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Feb. 2026
While several key players are already months into their rehabilitation from serious injuries – Nick Bosa, Fred Warner and Mykel Williams – their offensive catalyst sounds surprisingly refreshed only a few weeks after the season.
—Cam Inman, Mercury News, 8 Feb. 2026
Not surprisingly, Musk envisions a shorter timeline.
—Hannah Parker, NBC news, 8 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for surprisingly
Adverb
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After an unusually warm and dry stretch, soggy weather could be returning to Phoenix.—
Hayleigh Evans,
AZCentral.com,
13 Feb. 2026
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What Comes Next The scale of this expedition — spanning the full length of Argentina’s continental margin — makes its data set unusually comprehensive.—
Ryan Brennan,
Kansas City Star,
13 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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Bodyman centers on a violent power struggle that unfolds during a family Christmas gathering after an eccentric billionaire unexpectedly transfers control of his private military company to his longtime bodyguard, played by Jonas, instead of to his adult children.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Feb. 2026
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What happened next is what makes the Olympics so unexpectedly compelling.—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
10 Feb. 2026
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Ironically enough, on the opposite end, Seattle has drafted amazingly at the non-QB positions but brought in their Super Bowl QB via free agency.—
Doug Kyed,
Boston Herald,
8 Feb. 2026
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Donovan Mitchell played amazingly.—
Janis Carr,
Oc Register,
5 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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The Rangers are astonishingly bad right now and did the Penguins a favor by sitting Artemi Panarin out.—
Josh Yohe,
New York Times,
1 Feb. 2026
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At their closest points, helicopters and planes flew within 75 feet of each other near DCA, an astonishingly close number.—
Sam Sweeney,
ABC News,
27 Jan. 2026
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To Dallas’ astoundingly great luck, the arrival and rise of Cooper Flagg has been a bright ray of hope and excitement, but with Doncic back in the building the air was thick with gloom, regret and, yes, ongoing anger.—
Brad Townsend,
Dallas Morning News,
31 Jan. 2026
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Still, anything short of a shutout from Minter’s defense wasn’t going to win Sunday in a game where the Chargers’ only score was a 21-yard field goal in the second quarter – an astoundingly poor showing, offensively.—
Mirjam Swanson,
Oc Register,
13 Jan. 2026
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The high-resolution imagery reveals a stunningly diverse landscape of snowy valleys threaded with a vein-like network of mountain peaks, around which sit the venues of the 2026 Winter Olympic Games.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
10 Feb. 2026
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The last upset with a larger spread was the 2007 season when the Pats (again) were favored by a massive 12 points only to stunningly lose to the Giants.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
5 Feb. 2026
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“Surprisingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/surprisingly. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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