startlingly
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For investors, this is a reminder of two basic principles: You can’t judge a fund by its name alone, and diverging even slightly from the broadest exposure to stocks can give you startlingly different results.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
The star returned to the spotlight last year with her fifth album West End Girl - a startlingly honest account of the breakdown of her marriage to actor David Harbour.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Both books take the reader to a startlingly large number of places, beyond the 13 colonies, in what Ms. Pearsall terms this “Russian doll of a war.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
On its release, BBC music correspondent Mark Savage described West End Girl as "a savage and startlingly detailed portrait of a marriage being torn apart".
From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2026
Climbing that was quicker than a ladder, though the iron spokes were startlingly cold against my still-wet hands.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
