surprising
Example Sentences
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“France fights their own battles. You invaded them. They fought back. Nothing at all surprising in that story.”
From Literature
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So, when anything goes awry, it is not surprising that people watch closely to see what they can learn.
From BBC
“This is not surprising and will not end with OpenAI,” he said of Noble’s post.
From MarketWatch
“The direction is not surprising. The magnitude is totally astonishing,” said Dimitris Valatsas, chief economist at Aurora Macro Strategies, a global risk consulting firm.
"If you would have told me I would have played four or five matches in Australia, regardless of how they went, from a physical perspective it would have been pretty surprising."
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.