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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
Many people who bought cars during the pandemic, for example, paid shockingly high, premium prices for those vehicles and could still owe a good deal of money on their loans even after trading in the car.
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Susan Tompor, Freep.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Gray was shockingly released by the New Orleans Saints, leading to his landing with Baltimore.
—James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
But babies are also shockingly adaptable, and respond well to routine.
—Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 2 Sep. 2025
When closed, the Fold 7 (shockingly) feels like any normal phone, and the outer display isn’t strangely narrow like past Samsung Fold devices.
—Mitch Wallace, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
University of Arizona has fixed its budget troubles, its new president says, roughly two years after a shockingly large shortfall was discovered.
—Joanna Allhands, AZCentral.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Oliver shockingly held Barbara captive inside of their mansion.
—Erin Jensen, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025
My frustration comes from how shockingly repetitive the show is formally.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 23 Aug. 2025
Susan Tompor, Freep.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Gray was shockingly released by the New Orleans Saints, leading to his landing with Baltimore.
—James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
But babies are also shockingly adaptable, and respond well to routine.
—Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 2 Sep. 2025
When closed, the Fold 7 (shockingly) feels like any normal phone, and the outer display isn’t strangely narrow like past Samsung Fold devices.
—Mitch Wallace, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
University of Arizona has fixed its budget troubles, its new president says, roughly two years after a shockingly large shortfall was discovered.
—Joanna Allhands, AZCentral.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Oliver shockingly held Barbara captive inside of their mansion.
—Erin Jensen, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025
My frustration comes from how shockingly repetitive the show is formally.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 23 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shockingly
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This set includes eight in saturated tones, plus 30 faux maple leaves that are surprisingly detailed and great for scattering along a mantle or layering into a centerpiece.—
Toni Sutton,
PEOPLE,
5 Sep. 2025
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Told from the point of view of Ruffalo's lawman and the everyman (Tom Pelphry) who is surprisingly leading the robberies, the drama is seriously dark but also thoughtful and addictive.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
4 Sep. 2025
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Strangely, though, the BRT has remained conspicuously quiet out of what a growing chorus of commentators interpret to be a fear of retribution.—
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
Time,
29 Aug. 2025
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The conspicuously larger fifth number, called BB(5), was only definitively pinned down last year, by a team made up mostly of amateur mathematicians working together in an online community called the Busy Beaver Challenge.—
Ben Brubaker,
Quanta Magazine,
22 Aug. 2025
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New York Yankees captain Aaron Judge is climbing the home run leaderboard awfully quickly.—
Jackson Roberts,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Sep. 2025
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For a movie about a man running from the emptiness within, Ballad of a Small Player rings awfully hollow.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Aug. 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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The production process is astonishingly simple.—
Akiko Katayama,
Forbes.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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The Nortiv 8 Lightweight Hiking Shoes definitely fit the bill, and look strikingly similar, too—and for only $58.—
Stephanie Osmanski,
Better Homes & Gardens,
7 Sep. 2025
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Even more strikingly, Netanyahu falsely claimed that the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, had already passed a bill recognizing the Armenian genocide—a statement that is entirely untrue.—
MSNBC Newsweek,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Sep. 2025
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At times on Saturday, Bremen were terribly naive, exhibiting all the fragility expected of a team built from inexperienced players.—
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
New York Times,
2 Sep. 2025
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That being said, these two companies don't have high yields because of terribly large payouts, which do significantly increase each year with earnings, but rather weakness in their stocks.—
Morgan Chittum,
CNBC,
29 Aug. 2025
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Fortunately, there are these amazingly good protein chips made with real ingredients to choose from.—
Sherri Gordon,
Parents,
19 Aug. 2025
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Hundreds of pieces by local artists (who, amazingly, have included Jackson Pollock and Elaine and Willem de Kooning) are hung up and ready to be grabbed by the art lovers who have lined up early to find the next superstar.—
Lois Alter Mark,
Forbes.com,
18 Aug. 2025
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This subtle bait and switch from a national identity crisis to a personal identity crisis is imaginative and, for a time, intriguing, with Gadebois doing some very heavy lifting as the bad guy that means well but, nevertheless, behaves appallingly.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
28 Aug. 2025
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The novel was adapted into a successful play, and Carson followed it with two sequels, before her death from cancer, in 1941, by which time the prescience of her fiction had become appallingly evident.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
19 Aug. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Shockingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shockingly. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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