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
Still, finding the perfect button-down can feel surprisingly difficult.
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Minty Mellon, Vogue, 16 Feb. 2026
Inflation came in surprisingly soft on Friday, just after a labor market report showed higher-than-expected growth.
—Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 16 Feb. 2026
Not surprisingly, Emma packed up her backs and split.
—Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Feb. 2026
Salmon is an impressive, hearty main dish but is surprisingly easy to make and only requires a few ingredients.
—Phoebe Evans, Southern Living, 15 Feb. 2026
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Minty Mellon, Vogue, 16 Feb. 2026
Inflation came in surprisingly soft on Friday, just after a labor market report showed higher-than-expected growth.
—Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 16 Feb. 2026
Not surprisingly, Emma packed up her backs and split.
—Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Feb. 2026
Salmon is an impressive, hearty main dish but is surprisingly easy to make and only requires a few ingredients.
—Phoebe Evans, Southern Living, 15 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for surprisingly
Adverb
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Paramount, unusually, had moved on regulatory approvals without a deal in hand so there is nothing, in fact, to close on.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
20 Feb. 2026
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One afternoon in 2024, when her session in court had ended unusually early, Gisèle Pelicot went to the Leclerc supermarket in Carpentras, a picturesque town in Provence.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
20 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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However, following the uncrewed Artemis 1 lunar flight test in late 2022, it was found that ablative thermal protective material had unexpectedly chipped away from Orion's heat shield during its plunge through Earth's atmosphere.—
Leonard David,
Space.com,
17 Feb. 2026
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For what would be his last and most ambitious venture outside of the Dead, Weir unexpectedly reached out to Was, with whom Weir had occasionally worked over the previous two-plus decades.—
David Browne,
Rolling Stone,
17 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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In just one night, this lip mask can make your lips amazingly soft and hydrated.—
BestReviews,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Feb. 2026
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The evolution is amazingly quick.—
Deni Ellis Béchard,
Scientific American,
17 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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The astonishingly talented cast of that proto-Brat Pack film included Ralph Macchio, Matt Dillon, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez and Tom Cruise, all still early in their careers.—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Feb. 2026
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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
Adverb
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Somewhat astoundingly, each of his proposals, if enacted, would be more likely to make the affordability problem worse, not better.—
Rogé Karma,
The Atlantic,
10 Feb. 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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Eventually, Connor made his way into Trans Am road racing, and his stunningly quick success there attracted the eye of the NASCAR world.—
Jeff Gluck,
New York Times,
11 Feb. 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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