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as in surprisingly
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as in conspicuously
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as in awfully
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Recent Examples of shockingly
Even though the recipe comes together with just six ingredients and is shockingly simple, it’s still packed with flavor and comfort in every bite.
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Jenna Sims, Southern Living, 12 Oct. 2025
Kaprizov, shockingly, walked away from the meeting without accepting the $128 million.
—Michael Russo, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
After Brandon was shockingly eliminated from the season 34 competition on the latest episode of Dancing with the Stars alongside partner Lauren Jauregui, the internet was awash with questions about what the elimination meant for the pro.
—Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
The drama reached its apex when Britney Haynes shockingly solved the maze in three minutes and thirty seconds and then chose Danielle Reyes to go next, even though Taylor Hale was volunteering.
—Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Oct. 2025
Nearly 30,000 steps later, two flights, 10 hours in the air, and a mad dash through Paris, my feet were still shockingly pain-free.
—Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 27 Sep. 2025
The Green Bay Packers were shockingly taken down by the Cleveland Browns in Week 3, and it is believed that the team will be looking for some revenge in Week 4.
—James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
The 5-ingredient vintage recipe is shockingly good.
—Maggie Meyer Glisan, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Sep. 2025
Miami is a deeply flawed team, but after a shockingly inept opener at Indy played much better in a narrow loss to New England.
—Miami Herald, 17 Sep. 2025
Jenna Sims, Southern Living, 12 Oct. 2025
Kaprizov, shockingly, walked away from the meeting without accepting the $128 million.
—Michael Russo, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
After Brandon was shockingly eliminated from the season 34 competition on the latest episode of Dancing with the Stars alongside partner Lauren Jauregui, the internet was awash with questions about what the elimination meant for the pro.
—Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
The drama reached its apex when Britney Haynes shockingly solved the maze in three minutes and thirty seconds and then chose Danielle Reyes to go next, even though Taylor Hale was volunteering.
—Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Oct. 2025
Nearly 30,000 steps later, two flights, 10 hours in the air, and a mad dash through Paris, my feet were still shockingly pain-free.
—Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 27 Sep. 2025
The Green Bay Packers were shockingly taken down by the Cleveland Browns in Week 3, and it is believed that the team will be looking for some revenge in Week 4.
—James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
The 5-ingredient vintage recipe is shockingly good.
—Maggie Meyer Glisan, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Sep. 2025
Miami is a deeply flawed team, but after a shockingly inept opener at Indy played much better in a narrow loss to New England.
—Miami Herald, 17 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shockingly
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Ducard says more than half of the website’s users are Gen Z—and surprisingly, around 80% of its members live outside the United States.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
16 Oct. 2025
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But the scientists realized that achieving stable cycling took surprisingly little modification.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Bigelow and Oppenheim seem eager to make something far more than mere entertainment and, as a consequence, wind up with something conspicuously less.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
14 Oct. 2025
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Consumer stocks have been conspicuously absent from the market’s latest move to record highs.—
Fred Imbert,
CNBC,
8 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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But not without some awfully tense moments getting there.—
Frank Rajkowski,
Twin Cities,
11 Oct. 2025
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The Matthew Knies, Auston Matthews and Matias Maccelli line was awfully quiet, save for a bad penalty by Knies and the nice empty-netter from Matthews.—
James Mirtle,
New York Times,
9 Oct. 2025
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This is an astonishingly weak negotiating position.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Oct. 2025
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Most of them are astonishingly clear, though a few are milkier or even red at depth (some of the red ones have clarity like a ruby).—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Even in the majors, though, the directive is strikingly similar, pun intended.—
Tyler Kepner,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2025
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For an evening devoted to inspiration, the show’s final acts offered a strikingly different kind of message.—
Alejandro Avila OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
17 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Demented cheering was broadcast on social media so loudly that many not-terribly-political Americans took notice.—
Jeremy Lott,
The Washington Examiner,
10 Oct. 2025
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Not terribly long ago, Spanish restaurants were abundant in this part of Manhattan, but a good number have died off in recent years.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
5 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Even without the rigid protection of a hard shell, this softside suitcase is amazingly durable.—
Olivia Young,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Oct. 2025
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The answer from behind the wheel, amazingly, is both.—
Ben Oliver,
Robb Report,
30 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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But Masumura’s manner is raw and harsh, a cinematic parallel to pulp fiction, with intense emotional and physical violence, candid and heated eroticism, hectic performances, and luridly skewed visual compositions.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Shockingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shockingly. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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