surprisingly
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When a marriage does break up, state laws and judges can be surprisingly unforgiving to the stay-at-home spouse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Sir Keir and Trump had a surprisingly warm relationship from the start of the American president's second term.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
Lead author Alan Tennyson of Te Papa said many bird species have reached New Zealand over millions of years, but the ancestors of some of the country's best known large birds arrived surprisingly recently.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
“By most measures, they are the most market-fluent generation America has ever produced,” according to a Morningstar report, yet surprisingly, they score lower than other generations in financial literacy, “undermining the group’s long-term performance potential.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
More surprisingly perhaps, there are no facts in Robert Boyle’s New Experiments of 1660, his first account of the air-pump experiments, only phenomena.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
