surprise

Example Sentences

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Given their influence, it’s perhaps no surprise, then, that Mr. Dylan has said that he “knew they were pointing the direction of where music had to go. In my head, the Beatles were it.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

ARK buying might not be a surprise, but it’s still a change from what the fund was doing recently.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

Maybe it is not a surprise to see that smaller players trade at lower P/E valuations in an industry dominated by giant companies.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026

Handler’s appointment came, she says, as a surprise.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

She had to fry enough bread so that up to fifty people could have at least two pieces of frybread that evening at E’s surprise birthday party.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith