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completely taken aback by the neighbors' announcement that they were moving
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Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Nov. 2024
The southern hospitality took Alabama football’s new offensive coordinator aback.
—Matt Stahl | Mstahl@al.com, al, 6 Aug. 2023
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Leo (July 23 - August 22)
Your own brilliance could take you aback today.
—USA TODAY, 23 July 2023
While the half-point increase was broadly expected, the dire warning about the fragility of the U.K. economy and stagflation, the toxic combination of no economic growth and inflation, took markets aback.
—Will Horner, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2022
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“Aback.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aback. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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aback
adverb1
archaic
: back entry 2 sense 1, backward
2
: by surprise : unawares
taken aback by the turn of events
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