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shockingly

ADVERB
desperately
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK


ADVERB
scandalously
Synonyms


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It was a Saturday, and the sky above the lake was shockingly clear.

From Salon Jul. 28, 2026

The April jobs report would have to be shockingly poor to worry the Fed, and even then, it might not be viewed as credible.

From MarketWatch May 7, 2026

Ternus worked his way up the hardware design ladder at Apple over a quarter-century, and is best-known for leading the shockingly smooth transition of Macs from Intel chips to Apple’s own custom designs.

From Barron's Apr. 24, 2026

Yet for as long as America’s love affair with baseball has lasted, the sport’s practitioners knew shockingly little about how the game was truly played for most of that time.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 16, 2026

She’s on Mountainside Drive and suddenly, shockingly, she grasps problem number two.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti




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