come as a revelation
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: to be a pleasant often enlightening surprise
Her talent came as a revelation.
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This might come as a revelation to workers who are currently experiencing a top-down model of 3/2 in their workplaces.
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Bruce Daisley, WIRED, 29 Dec. 2022
While working from home has come as a revelation to many, some Zen staffers have been WFHers for a while.
—Carlton Reid, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
But that reality appears to have come as a revelation to some of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot defendants.
—Clarence Page, chicagotribune.com, 29 Oct. 2021
For those too young to have experienced the tsunami of celebrity and contradiction that was Ali in the ‘60s and ‘70s, the documentary will come as a revelation.
—BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2021
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Bruce Daisley, WIRED, 29 Dec. 2022
While working from home has come as a revelation to many, some Zen staffers have been WFHers for a while.
—Carlton Reid, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
But that reality appears to have come as a revelation to some of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot defendants.
—Clarence Page, chicagotribune.com, 29 Oct. 2021
For those too young to have experienced the tsunami of celebrity and contradiction that was Ali in the ‘60s and ‘70s, the documentary will come as a revelation.
—BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2021
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“Come as a revelation.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/come%20as%20a%20revelation. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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