How to Use come as no surprise in a Sentence

come as no surprise

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  • That should come as no surprise; the two know each other well.
    Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al, 31 Oct. 2022
  • The playful spin on suiting should come as no surprise.
    André-Naquian Wheeler, Vogue, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Although that will have come as no surprise to anybody who watched her slaughter a bear in the woods and form her own nascent cult.
    Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 14 Jan. 2023
  • That Brazil is mirroring the United States should come as no surprise.
    Gabriela Sá Pessoa, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2022
  • And Nicole's Oscars gown was also a total hit with her friends and fans, which should come as no surprise to anyone.
    Emily Shiffer, Women's Health, 15 Mar. 2023
  • This should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with my predilection for food that is brown.
    Jenn Harriscolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2022
  • That the wily Lucia was able to charm her way into this situation should come as no surprise, though.
    Michael Cuby, ELLE, 9 Dec. 2022
  • But this should come as no surprise since it was designed by the ubiquitous Giugiaro.
    Mike Knepper, Car and Driver, 31 Mar. 2023
  • This will come as no surprise to the British themselves, whose children are also increasingly taught to hate their past.
    Tom Switzer, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2023
  • This should come as no surprise, but Elon Musk doesn’t see a downside to being extremely online.
    Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Several of the top 10 items left behind listed on the index should come as no surprise: cell phones, wallets and keys being among them.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 1 May 2023
  • Additionally, and this should come as no surprise: Pattinson was out of his mind during the making of the movie.
    Evan Romano, Men's Health, 30 Aug. 2022
  • That lines begin to blur, with jump-scares making the hospice seem like a portal to more than just teen imagination, should come as no surprise.
    Daniel D'addario, Variety, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Sinema’s abysmal approval levels should come as no surprise.
    Tori Otten, The New Republic, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Agnew and his colleagues’ findings may be striking, but come as no surprise to roboticists who have spent years trying to change the industry.
    WIRED, 20 Aug. 2022
  • That progression in product releases, and the relevant merits of each one, will come as no surprise to flashlight nerds like me.
    Wes Siler, Outside Online, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Yet that should come as no surprise given Simões’ already-impressive résumé.
    Jack Bantock, CNN, 10 May 2023
  • Nile Rodgers & Chic were truly special guests, blurring the lines between disco and funk while bringing out the best in both, which should have come as no surprise to anyone who saw them with Duran Duran back in 2016.
    Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 8 Sep. 2022
  • So calls for stronger bank supervision and regulation should come as no surprise.
    Brian Gendreau, Fortune, 18 Apr. 2023
  • This should come as no surprise, but different body washes have different reactions on each skin type.
    Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 25 Jan. 2023
  • The lineup is usually pretty heavy on indie and alt-rock—which should come as no surprise, since it’s curated by Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder..
    Shawnté Salabert, Outside Online, 4 Jan. 2023
  • And that should come as no surprise because White + Warrens travel wraps are an editor favorite, so of course their leisurewear would be absolutely divine too.
    The Editors, Town & Country, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Seeing the Cowboys represented among the league’s top jersey sellers should come as no surprise to fans, as Parsons topped the merchandise numbers in October.
    Dallas News, 15 Jan. 2023
  • For those who have been weathering the rampant pace of transformation these last few years, the emergence of the CIO as a leading player in bringing empathic experiences to scale should come as no surprise.
    Billee Howard, Forbes, 24 July 2022
  • That all three were created in Germany should come as no surprise: only the land of the unlimited-speed autobahn could even conceive of building sports sedans as explosive and exclusive as these.
    Arthur St. Antoine, Car and Driver, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The pieces draw inspiration from the sea, which should come as no surprise to anyone who has followed Brown-Taher’s career—her core collection features oceanic designs—but the motif also appears more subtly in the work of Rojas.
    Ian Malone, Vogue, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The affinity for Sunbelt and Mountain states that stretch across the southern US should come as no surprise—fractional investment startups are simply following trends set by other real estate investors.
    Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Her remark, undoubtedly representing Oval Office sentiment, would have come as no surprise to Karp.
    Andrew Cockburn, Harper’s Magazine , 26 Oct. 2022
  • The determination with which Edelstein has pursued painting and the excellence of her results should come as no surprise to anyone paying attention to Edelstein’s odds-defying artistic career.
    Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Right-wing extremists, however, have always viewed state agents as pernicious antagonists, and so the institutionalization of that mind-set should come as no surprise as the G.O.P. embraces the ideas and attitudes of its radical flank.
    Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2022

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