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Despite this startling record of malfeasance, SOCOM's Comprehensive Review came to an unstartling conclusion.

From Salon • Apr. 1, 2020

Then there was Bill's midnight phone seminar with Ben Wattenberg, whose most recent book makes the unstartling claim that Values Matter Most.

From Time Magazine Archive

Specifically, she was after biographical detail that would support her unstartling thesis that McCarthy's books are partly autobiographical.

From Time Magazine Archive

His half-hopeful, half-baffled, wholly unstartling conclusion: no, if the U.S. and Russia can agree.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is not journalism's ordinary business to deal with the unstartling normalities of life.

From Time Magazine Archive