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surprised

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verb

variants also surprized
past tense of surprise

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Recent Examples of surprised
Adjective
Chief Keef was surprised with a visit from Solange after a recent concert. Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 4 Nov. 2024 A little league baseball game was full of major league emotion when a young slugger was surprised at the plate by his dad. Seth Carnell, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2024 In Louisville, many Black people are far from surprised Sept. 27, 2020 Hankison fired 10 shots into Taylor’s glass door and windows during the raid, but didn’t hit anyone. Dylan Lovan, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2024 So don’t be surprised if Blaine receives a scare before ultimately prevailing. Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 25 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for surprised 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for surprised
Verb
  • In 2019, Paulino and his cousin were ambushed by a group of the loggers who killed Paulino and wounded his cousin.
    Jamie Lang, Variety, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Since last week’s atrocity, imagery of which was widely shared on social media, the Ukrainian 82nd and 95th Air Assault Brigades, respectively holding positions southeast and southwest of the 155th Naval Infantry Brigade’s own positions in Kursk Oblast, have ambushed Russian marines.
    David Axe, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • Parents of students at Markle Middle School told local outlets they were shocked to learn that the district had installed windows in bathrooms, pushing back against Gelazela’s claim that students’ privacy rights were not affected.
    Samantha Riedel, Them, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Take the quiz here … DIGITAL NEWS QUIZ – Russia shocked the US near which state?
    Fox News, Fox News, 4 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • Eminem, stunned, then holds a photo of a sonogram while Jade smiles and laughs at her dad’s reaction to the news.
    Alli Rosenbloom, CNN, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Video showing a Kentucky judge being gunned down in his chambers was played Tuesday during a court hearing for the ex-sheriff who is charged in the killing that stunned their Appalachian community.
    CBS News, CBS News, 2 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Hereafter is ultimately too touchy-feely for its own good — too awed by its modest musings on the mystery of being alive — and the film suggests Damon isn’t so great at playing characters with a mystical bent.
    Will Leitch, Vulture, 9 Aug. 2024
  • For a moment, there is what could be described as an awed pause, before a vaping assistant breaks the spell.
    Nathan Heller, Vogue, 17 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • Even Jeff still seems astonished to be in the presence of one of hip-hop’s founding innovators.
    Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2024
  • That meant those showing up in New Zealand were astonished to discover their task was to climb the New Zealand Fiji Mountains within 14 days.
    Mark Peikert, IndieWire, 29 Sep. 2024
Adjective
  • In this day and age, where 4K is normal, even HD is considered blurry; however, the decision to shoot with the prosumer camcorder at a resolution of 480 on to MiniDV paid off, and Murphy’s bewildered walk through Westminster is still genuinely iconic.
    Carlton Reid, WIRED, 19 Sep. 2024
  • There this brilliant but bewildered scientist gets cornered by a plutocrat with impertinent questions.
    Alan Scherstuhl, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Kirkpatrick was astounded that Hussey and Whiting had never consented to the shoot and weren’t even informed of what would appear in the final version of the film.
    Lila Shapiro, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Tell him what happened then only to go Snoop’s astounded broadcast partner, the ur-straight-man Mike Tirico, could only laugh.
    Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2024
Adjective
  • To be amazed – and, perhaps, a little spooked – read the full story here.
    Bebe Hodges, The Enquirer, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Scott and his brother, Seth, were more amazed by what Logan hadn’t written.
    Robert Sullivan, Vogue, 21 Oct. 2024

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“Surprised.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/surprised. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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