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Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

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causing surprise or wonder or amazement

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And at the end of the day, it doesn't matter if the gesture is as grand as surprising OFWs in the airport or as simple as making people laugh in the elevator.
First the researchers showed the babies both surprising and predictable situations regarding an object.
This statement sums up Gross's ultimate conclusion to what surprising events contribute to the scientific world, but also to human society as a whole.
Surprising Millions add to the festivities at Mercato mallWeekly raffle draws end next week
What he said was always surprising, especially the way his parables turned out.
In short, complex dynamical systems are self-patterning, self-regulating and commonly surprising. In my view, the growing comprehension and appreciation of complex systems--including hurricanes, climate, consciousness and even the phenomenon of Life itself--is catalyzing a revolution in worldview that may be Copernican in depth, and scale.
Then, however, came perhaps the most surprising development of all.
Bunn, 444 Surprising Quotes About Jesus: A Treasury Of Inspiring Thoughts And Classic Quotations is an inspirational collection of sayings, quotes, words, phrases, and treasured wisdom regarding the life, teachings and example of Jesus Christ.
Defoe's title indicates both the strangeness and veracity of the narrator's experiences: real rather than fantastical, and thus all the more surprising; or, in Michael McKeon's formula for the epistemology of seventeenth-century news-ballads and early novels, "strange, therefore true" (5-6).
At a surprising number of schools, a majority of students now seem to take gay equality for granted.
When you studied these fossils, did you find anything surprising about the Jehol Forest?
It is not surprising that these same firms (like Norinco) are now building Tehran's new metro system, among other things.
Surprising Edge: He's interviewed more foreign leaders than most candidates can name.
But what is surprising and what should shock our nation's conscience is that these U.S.
While that's better than the 1.5 percent foreseen by some consensus surveys, it was still noticeably slower than the surprising 3.5 percent of the previous quarter.