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surprising

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In that light, it really shouldn't be surprising that a degree isn't always required to be successful.

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Quick take

A situation in which somebody is surprised.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of surprising gathered in one view.

noun

A situation in which somebody is surprised.

adjective

Causing surprise.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for surprising.

Example sentences

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In that light, it really shouldn't be surprising that a degree isn't always required to be successful.

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Popular political parties with anti immigration agendas can pass surprising laws because young people do not vote.

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It seems surprising that it may have just been a bias of what was introduced first.

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It's surprising there isn't some chemical reaction to precipitate out the sodium and chloride atoms bonded to something else, or whatever.

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The current excuse for JS's surprising behavior is legacy and the fact that it was built in ten days or something.

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What would be surprising is if the word 'tenacious' were to be decoupled from success.

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And it's not surprising that the Steam circus has some of the same ego issues.

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IE8-10 are still up to 25% of the browsers[0] (caniuse puts them much lower, which isn't surprising for sampling dev oriented sites).

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In that context, this sort of thing should not be the least surprising.

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So the existence of an aberrant concentration of quality isn't surprising to me.

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In that, the ability of NLP to predict similar effects is not surprising.

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A bit surprising but I'm guessing it's the multi-architecture fat binary problem they don't want to solve?

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use surprising in a sentence?

In that light, it really shouldn't be surprising that a degree isn't always required to be successful.

What does surprising mean?

A situation in which somebody is surprised.

What part of speech is surprising?

surprising is commonly used as noun, adjective.