surprising thing

collocation in English

meaningsofsurprisingandthing

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surprising
adjective
uk
/səˈpraɪ.zɪŋ/us
/sɚˈpraɪ.zɪŋ/
unexpected:
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thing
noun
uk
/θɪŋ/us
/θɪŋ/
used to refer in an approximate way to an object or to avoid ...
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(Definition ofsurprisingandthingfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsurprising thing

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Thesurprisingthingis not that employers did so little but that they did so much.
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Thesurprisingthingabout this symposium was the level of consensus that emerged.
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Thesurprisingthingwas that many of them did.
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To me, the exciting andsurprisingthingabout this policy revolution was that these previously neglected groups did not need comparable mass mobilization to win inclusion in policy.
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Perhaps the mostsurprisingthingabout this book, given the sustained critique of deliberative democracy that it offers, is how little it engages with the existing literature.
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Thesurprisingthingis that none was offered.
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It is asurprisingthing, but it is the fact.
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The onlysurprisingthingabout this claim is that it is necessary to make it.
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Thesurprisingthingabout this regulation is the terms in which it is drawn.
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This does happen, and thesurprisingthingis that it does not happen more often.
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Thesurprisingthingis that it is the truth.
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Thesurprisingthingwas that they did not total £55 million.
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Thesurprisingthingis that they have gone so far along the road to their creation.
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Thesurprisingthingis that cottage hospitals have not yet truly blossomed.
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Thesurprisingthingis that it was not worse than it is.
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But an extraordinary andsurprisingthinghas happened.
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That is asurprisingthingto say, perhaps, but it is true.
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Was that not a philistine and asurprisingthingto say?
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Thesurprisingthingis that that hospital is now unnecessary.
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