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Swift announced on Tuesday that a surprise new single, “Patient Zero,” would come out on Friday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Owners of units in condominiums are increasingly struggling to sell because of surprise HOA fees, insurance problems, special assessments and stricter lending standards.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

Wildcats, she says, "never cease to surprise us."

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Moonshot AI, a lab in which Alibaba owns a stake, released a model with 2.8 trillion parameters in July, catching many Silicon Valley competitors by surprise.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

Which shouldn’t have been a huge surprise, but it was still a bummer to sit down to my first breakfast at the mountain to his scowling face.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

As chapters grow shorter, options become fewer and the tension tightens, yet surprises continue into the book’s finale.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

Among the many surprises uncovered by the James Webb Space Telescope, one of the strangest has been a large population of tiny, intensely red objects known as Little Red Dots.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

At this point, markets risk having a bad reaction if the Fed surprises investors by not lifting its policy rate, Michael Rosen, chief investment officer at Angeles Investment Advisors, told MarketWatch in an interview.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

While surprises are always possible, Rosen predicts a major awards haul for "Widow's Bay," surpassing all competitors including the final season of the perennial favorite "Hacks."

From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026

"You've got to try my new sauce. We're calling it the Manhattan. It's full of surprises."

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

In the meantime, Kaufman is as surprised as anyone that she may have entered Swift’s songwriting lore.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

I would not be surprised to see James Trafford and Dean Henderson given opportunities in goal but it may be that by the tournament it is still his experience that gives Jordan Pickford the edge.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

MarketWatch: What single statistic from your research surprised you the most?

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

"I was surprised at our findings because the word 'brain' implies a contiguous organ that likely has a singular origin," Jokhai said.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

“Grace,” Jonah says, looking every bit as surprised as I am.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

The stories of Anne, Naomi and Chelsey, told in flashbacks and present-day chapters, become entwined in surprising ways.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

He invited the duty governor to review the decision but that offer was declined, in a move the judge described as "somewhat surprising".

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

"That would indeed be surprising, and, in addition to other theories, it could point to the existence of a fifth force," as Soter outlines.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

Yet another warning sign of a stock-market bubble is coming from growth stocks’ surprising strength.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026

And yet, surprising everyone, he managed to survive.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple