startling
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It’s home to perhaps 4,000 year-round residents, star-struck by night, startling at dawn, surrounded by the largest state park in California, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
The shift is ordinary and still somehow startling.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
But that is by design, said INRIA's Serena Ivaldi, as the robots "have to act in human environments" without startling the people they help.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
If, at 82 years old, he’s considering his legacy, he’s also still spilling out new ideas at a startling pace, sometimes in new ensembles—the one heard on last year’s “Listen Ship” included six guitarists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
It may be, too, that he wanted to show in the most startling and shocking way possible how easy it was to deceive the awful, venerated, humbly adored divinities.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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