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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
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.
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James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
The 5-ingredient vintage recipe is shockingly good.
—Maggie Meyer Glisan, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Sep. 2025
Hakuba Backpack This slim yet shockingly spacious backpack is a sleek personal item choice for air travel that’ll easily slide under the seat of most commercial airlines with room to spare.
—Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 20 Sep. 2025
Soccer is a brutal game, but the sudden, drastic demotion of the Italian from Paris Saint-Germain's lineup for the UEFA Super Cup clash against Tottenham Hotspur before he was sold to Manchester City was shockingly brutal.
—Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes.com, 17 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
The iPhone 17 has shockingly loud speakers.
—Eric Zeman, PC Magazine, 17 Sep. 2025
Morgan Taylor Strip Ease Nail Lacquer Remover Jar makes the process shockingly easy.
—Sophia Panych, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025
This magnificent image portrait of the Andromeda Galaxy by Weitang Liang, Qi Yang and Chuhong Yu is the overall winner of the 2025 ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year Award and features a shockingly detailed view of the Milky Way's closest neighbor.
—Anthony Wood, Space.com, 12 Sep. 2025
James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
The 5-ingredient vintage recipe is shockingly good.
—Maggie Meyer Glisan, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Sep. 2025
Hakuba Backpack This slim yet shockingly spacious backpack is a sleek personal item choice for air travel that’ll easily slide under the seat of most commercial airlines with room to spare.
—Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 20 Sep. 2025
Soccer is a brutal game, but the sudden, drastic demotion of the Italian from Paris Saint-Germain's lineup for the UEFA Super Cup clash against Tottenham Hotspur before he was sold to Manchester City was shockingly brutal.
—Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes.com, 17 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
The iPhone 17 has shockingly loud speakers.
—Eric Zeman, PC Magazine, 17 Sep. 2025
Morgan Taylor Strip Ease Nail Lacquer Remover Jar makes the process shockingly easy.
—Sophia Panych, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025
This magnificent image portrait of the Andromeda Galaxy by Weitang Liang, Qi Yang and Chuhong Yu is the overall winner of the 2025 ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year Award and features a shockingly detailed view of the Milky Way's closest neighbor.
—Anthony Wood, Space.com, 12 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shockingly
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While Mariah’s collab with Young Thug was more of a surprisingly-still-there than just a surprise, there were more special guests on the new album.—
Alejandra Gularte,
Vulture,
26 Sep. 2025
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He and Kate Bosworth star in the horror comedy as a mom and dad whose neighborhood is beset by a pack of dangerous and surprisingly smart coyotes that can open doors and cause all sorts of suburban chaos.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
25 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Instead of six symmetrical arms, like a snowflake, only four reached outward — leaving two conspicuously missing and creating a lopsided star.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
25 Sep. 2025
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Amber's name was conspicuously missing.—
MSNBC Newsweek,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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On the flip side, 2-1 with a road win over the Chargers would look awfully good.—
Joe Nguyen,
Denver Post,
21 Sep. 2025
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Quality like this is awfully hard to come by.—
Kevin Stankiewicz,Morgan Chittum,
CNBC,
18 Sep. 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
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Here, within an astonishingly small radius, are housed such digital titans as OpenAI, Meta, Alphabet, Apple, Intel, Nvidia, Oracle, Salesforce, Adobe and HP.—
Tyler Johnson,
Mercury News,
19 Sep. 2025
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Systems like Google’s co-scientist not only recall and synthesize vast libraries but also reason through competing possibilities, discard weaker ideas, and refine stronger ones in ways that can feel strikingly human.—
Elie Dolgin,
IEEE Spectrum,
25 Sep. 2025
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Most strikingly, they were rarely included in the curriculum.—
Laura Clawson,
JSTOR Daily,
25 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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That it’s bound to failure is what makes Don Quixote so terribly sad.—
Ed Simon
September 22,
Literary Hub,
22 Sep. 2025
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As winning goes, Ralphie VII doesn’t have a terribly high bar to clear.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
21 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Daltrey’s voice — the one thing that really makes or breaks a Who show — sounded amazingly strong for most of the night.—
Jim Harrington,
Mercury News,
22 Sep. 2025
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The cut was not only Bieber’s first to start in first place, but — amazingly — his first ruler on the most competitive songs ranking in America.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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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
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“Shockingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shockingly. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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