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as in surprisingly
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as in conspicuously
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as in awfully
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Recent Examples of shockingly
This is a shockingly scandalous choice for an amateur theater debut.
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Emily Zarevich, JSTOR Daily, 11 Sep. 2025
Linen pants pair shockingly well with knit sweaters, giving outfits an effortless appearance that’s perfect for early fall.
—Genevieve Cepeda, Travel + Leisure, 10 Sep. 2025
Unsafe Medical Practices OIG staff also found shockingly unsafe practices.
—Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
The 2025 VMAs was a night for delivering nostalgia, making a statement and keeping Lady Gaga shockingly busy.
—Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
The patriarch wanted to consolidate control with Lachlan and cut out his other children — a both shockingly personal and overtly political maneuver.
—Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025
The film begins, somewhat shockingly, with a suicide attempt, as drunk and miserable Cliff Cashin (co-writer Michael Strassner) tries to hang himself in his attic only to wind up flat on his ass.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
Many people who bought cars during the pandemic, for example, paid shockingly high, premium prices for those vehicles and could still owe a good deal of money on their loans even after trading in the car.
—Susan Tompor, Freep.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Gray was shockingly released by the New Orleans Saints, leading to his landing with Baltimore.
—James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
Emily Zarevich, JSTOR Daily, 11 Sep. 2025
Linen pants pair shockingly well with knit sweaters, giving outfits an effortless appearance that’s perfect for early fall.
—Genevieve Cepeda, Travel + Leisure, 10 Sep. 2025
Unsafe Medical Practices OIG staff also found shockingly unsafe practices.
—Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
The 2025 VMAs was a night for delivering nostalgia, making a statement and keeping Lady Gaga shockingly busy.
—Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
The patriarch wanted to consolidate control with Lachlan and cut out his other children — a both shockingly personal and overtly political maneuver.
—Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025
The film begins, somewhat shockingly, with a suicide attempt, as drunk and miserable Cliff Cashin (co-writer Michael Strassner) tries to hang himself in his attic only to wind up flat on his ass.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
Many people who bought cars during the pandemic, for example, paid shockingly high, premium prices for those vehicles and could still owe a good deal of money on their loans even after trading in the car.
—Susan Tompor, Freep.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Gray was shockingly released by the New Orleans Saints, leading to his landing with Baltimore.
—James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shockingly
Adverb
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Yet a surprisingly large number of dishes that are washed end up being washed by hand.—
Jeremy Lott,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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The question of which individual investor owns which share of which company is surprisingly murky, an artifact of arcane market plumbing made more difficult by the rise of ETFs and fractional share ownership.—
Rohan Goswami,
semafor.com,
11 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Despite their name, the mobile homes are conspicuously immobile.—
Max Klaver,
Miami Herald,
8 Sep. 2025
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Strangely, though, the BRT has remained conspicuously quiet out of what a growing chorus of commentators interpret to be a fear of retribution.—
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
Time,
29 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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West Virginia in 2007 and Cincinnati in 2009 came awfully close.—
Stewart Mandel,
New York Times,
10 Sep. 2025
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While skeptics will wisely point to the small sample size, Sox general manager Chris Getz and manager Will Venable must be getting awfully excited.—
Phil Rogers,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Cosmologists now argue the universe’s primordial magnetic fields were astonishingly weak, comparable to the brain’s tiny signals, yet still thread today’s cosmic web.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Sep. 2025
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Tulloch is one of Silicon Valley’s cutting-edge AI researchers who have lately attracted astonishingly lucrative job offers from legacy tech companies trying to lure them away from their AI-native startups.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
29 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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Most strikingly, 24% of patients were free of seizures – something rarely seen in a treatment-resistant population.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
11 Sep. 2025
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The Panthers need to continue to feed him, especially as Young looks so strikingly inconsistent.—
DIAMOND VENCES,
Charlotte Observer,
10 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Even raid racers are not terribly excited about that, and apparently even like the previous World’s First team is even going to bother with it.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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Set in his native Scotland and lovingly photographed, the film tantalizes even without a terribly original story.—
Stephen Farber,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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This is amazingly rude, but still sayable.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Sep. 2025
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Book a Stay Hotel Bella Grande (which is owned by Cofoco) offers an amazingly central location in downtown Copenhagen, but be advised the rooms are not air-conditioned which can be an issue during the warmer summer months.—
Katie Kelly Bell,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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This subtle bait and switch from a national identity crisis to a personal identity crisis is imaginative and, for a time, intriguing, with Gadebois doing some very heavy lifting as the bad guy that means well but, nevertheless, behaves appallingly.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
28 Aug. 2025
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The novel was adapted into a successful play, and Carson followed it with two sequels, before her death from cancer, in 1941, by which time the prescience of her fiction had become appallingly evident.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
19 Aug. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Shockingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shockingly. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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