startlingly
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For investors, this is a reminder of two basic principles: You can’t judge a fund by its name alone, and diverging even slightly from the broadest exposure to stocks can give you startlingly different results.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
The star returned to the spotlight last year with her fifth album West End Girl - a startlingly honest account of the breakdown of her marriage to actor David Harbour.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Both books take the reader to a startlingly large number of places, beyond the 13 colonies, in what Ms. Pearsall terms this “Russian doll of a war.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
His first major recording boasted startlingly propulsive performances of Beethoven’s Fifth and Seventh Symphonies, with the uproarious Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, recorded 20 years ago this month.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026
In spite of an artistic vision so startlingly new it took years for the world to appreciate it, his artwork couldn’t save him from the depths of his tortured mind.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
