startlingly

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“It’s kind of a startlingly bad picture where virtually all major western watersheds are doing very poorly,” Swain said in a livestreamed discussion of the western snow outlook.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2026

Achieving a large-scale phone ban is a startlingly simple process.

From BBC • Jan. 24, 2026

It was a worrying sign after what had been a startlingly strong end to 2025 for both the healthcare sector at large, and biotech and drug stocks in particular.

From Barron's • Jan. 5, 2026

In her refusal to shy away from the grime and grit of Yuknavitch’s story, Stewart creates a startlingly raw atmosphere that ricochets between discordant and truly inspiring.

From Salon • Jan. 1, 2026

If, after whatever matter it has lost to space, a star retains two or three times the mass of the Sun, it ends its life cycle in a startlingly different mode than the Sun.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan