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
The outer display is surprisingly practical for quick texts or checking updates without needing the main screen.
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PC Magazine, 17 Sep. 2025
These little items have solved surprisingly common problems for her clients, like a broken strap, a small tear in clothing, or even a coffee spill mid-flight.
—Alesandra Dubin, Southern Living, 17 Sep. 2025
Cats are typically known to dislike water, but surprisingly, many enjoy bathtubs.
—Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
This surprisingly early Coachella talent announcement includes its regular roster of pop superstar headliners, with Sabrina Carpenter, Justin Bieber and Karol G taking top billing among dozens of other genre spanning acts.
—Katie Bain, Billboard, 16 Sep. 2025
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PC Magazine, 17 Sep. 2025
These little items have solved surprisingly common problems for her clients, like a broken strap, a small tear in clothing, or even a coffee spill mid-flight.
—Alesandra Dubin, Southern Living, 17 Sep. 2025
Cats are typically known to dislike water, but surprisingly, many enjoy bathtubs.
—Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
This surprisingly early Coachella talent announcement includes its regular roster of pop superstar headliners, with Sabrina Carpenter, Justin Bieber and Karol G taking top billing among dozens of other genre spanning acts.
—Katie Bain, Billboard, 16 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for surprisingly
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By adding a new molecule— borrowed from skin care—to their Infiniment Coty Paris fragrance collection, perfumes achieve the unusually long wear time of 30 hours, something none of us or our industry judges have ever seen or smelled before.—
Megan McIntyre,
Allure,
16 Sep. 2025
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Keep those air conditioners humming, because this week is kicking off with some unusually hot weather.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
15 Sep. 2025
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Upwards of ten thousand fans made the trip each year, but despite the match-up’s popularity and history, the Georgia Tech administration unexpectedly announced its intention to end the series when the contract ran out in the late 1970s.—
Elizabeth Hutchison Hicklin,
Southern Living,
12 Sep. 2025
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Wholesale inflation prices also fell unexpectedly last month.—
Fred Imbert,
CNBC,
12 Sep. 2025
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The result is an amazingly fluent-seeming AI that interacts akin to a human type of conversation.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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The Pittsburgh Pirates’ right fielder was poetry on the diamond, a five-tool player who helped his team to two World Series championships but amazingly was a bit underrated at the time.—
Jim Alexander,
Oc Register,
13 Sep. 2025
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Cosmologists now argue the universe’s primordial magnetic fields were astonishingly weak, comparable to the brain’s tiny signals, yet still thread today’s cosmic web.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Sep. 2025
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Tulloch is one of Silicon Valley’s cutting-edge AI researchers who have lately attracted astonishingly lucrative job offers from legacy tech companies trying to lure them away from their AI-native startups.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
29 Aug. 2025
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Ruffalo's fallen federal agent is Tom Brandis, a former priest who is reassigned from the field to man career fair booths after an astoundingly terrible family tragedy leaves him a broken man.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
7 Sep. 2025
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To make matters worse, most leaders of advanced economies are astoundingly clueless as to how to create conditions for vibrant prosperity.—
Steve Forbes,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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Husseini had proven stunningly corrupt.—
Sean Durns,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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She was stunningly draped in a tan Harith Hashim ensemble, the wavy silhouette of which contrasted with how Andrew Fitzsimons styled her hair perfectly straight.—
Marci Robin,
Allure,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Surprisingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/surprisingly. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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