surprisingly

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 OptiPlex 7020 is one in its nearly endless line of business towers, and this one has a surprisingly adroit loadout in terms of components. PC Magazine, 11 July 2025 But despite these dramatic displays of surrealist fashion, something much more simple — a wacky or vibrantly colored wig — is surprisingly rare. Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 10 July 2025 Furthermore, David’s Sling and even more surprisingly Iron Dome systems were credited with kills of MRBMs despite not being designed to defeat such faster, higher-flying missiles. Sebastien Roblin, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025 Not surprisingly, the court’s conservative supermajority upheld the Tennessee law by a 6-3 vote, with the trio of more liberal justices dissenting. Matthew Carey, Deadline, 1 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for surprisingly
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amazingly
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  • The diminishment in reputation, the status as pariah or laughingstock, the looming sentencing for the lesser charges (two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution, amazingly, his first conviction)—he would work his troubles into a narrative of redemption.
    Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 3 July 2025
  • Sophia McMinn, a sophomore at Ben Davis High School Sophie has been such an amazingly hard worker.
    Caroline Beck, IndyStar, 2 July 2025

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