surprising
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- surprisingly adverb
- surprisingness noun
- unsurprising adjective
Etymology
Origin of surprising
Example Sentences
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She was kind of the gateway to exceptional comedy — physical comedy, intellectual comedy, and a wonderful absurdity but also quite often, in surprising ways, rather heartbreaking.
From Los Angeles Times
Not a wildly controversial line, nor a surprising one, given Labour's leader, Sir Keir Starmer, is a former international human rights lawyer.
From BBC
That role comes with a surprising amount of quiet labor: the planning and budgeting, the cooking itself, the cleaning and storing, the ongoing mental inventory of what’s on hand and what’s slipping past its prime.
From Salon
But Maye and Lawrence were far from the only quarterbacks to take surprising leaps.
New findings suggest that Earth's magnetic field has played a surprising role in transporting particles from our atmosphere to the moon over vast stretches of time.
From Science Daily
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