surprisingly
adverb
sur·pris·ing·ly
sər-ˈprī-ziŋ-lē 
sə-
1
: in a surprising manner : to a surprising degree
a surprisingly fast runner
2
: it is surprising that
surprisingly, voter turnout was high
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Not surprisingly, China is pulling ahead of us across a panoply of scientific metrics.
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Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 25 July 2025
Not surprisingly, Congress is pushing back against the Trump administration's proposal to cancel the Space Launch System, the behemoth rocket NASA has developed to propel astronauts back to the Moon.
—Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 25 July 2025
Not surprisingly, the 5-in-1 tool ultimately made it out a little late, as the usual crowd-funder stumbles and hiccups were thoroughly compounded by a global pandemic for which no one had planned.
—New Atlas, 25 July 2025
Their loved ones, meanwhile, were surprisingly unfazed by their unconventional wedding plans.
—Erin Clack, People.com, 24 July 2025
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Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 25 July 2025
Not surprisingly, Congress is pushing back against the Trump administration's proposal to cancel the Space Launch System, the behemoth rocket NASA has developed to propel astronauts back to the Moon.
—Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 25 July 2025
Not surprisingly, the 5-in-1 tool ultimately made it out a little late, as the usual crowd-funder stumbles and hiccups were thoroughly compounded by a global pandemic for which no one had planned.
—New Atlas, 25 July 2025
Their loved ones, meanwhile, were surprisingly unfazed by their unconventional wedding plans.
—Erin Clack, People.com, 24 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for surprisingly
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surprisingly
adverb
sur·pris·ing·ly
-lē
1
: in a surprising manner : to a surprising degree
a surprisingly fast runner
2
: it is surprising that
surprisingly, no one disagreed
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