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has startled

  • present perfect of startle (3rd person singular).

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Unprecedented warming in the North Atlantic has startled some researchers.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 14, 2023

That background has helped draw energy companies to Duncan's vision and his early success with carbon capture has startled others, said energy executives interviewed by Reuters for this story.

From Reuters Sep. 14, 2022

The extent of the exposure has startled researchers.

From The Guardian Apr. 18, 2020

Yet the national gloom seems to have bypassed Craven, an area of Yorkshire, in the north of England, that has startled Britons by emerging from national statistics as the happiest place in the country.

From New York Times Nov. 13, 2017

The word and place that has startled the civilized world is to-day a series of thriving mining camps on the Yukon River and its tributaries in the Canadian Northwest Territories.

From Klondyke Nuggets A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest by Ladue, Joseph Francis