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词汇 example_english_startling-discovery
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startling discovery

collocation in English

meanings of startlingand discovery


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startling
adjective
uk /ˈstɑː.təlɪŋ/ us /ˈstɑːr.t̬əlɪŋ/
surprising and ...
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discovery
noun
uk /dɪˈskʌv.ər.i/ us /dɪˈskʌv.ɚ.i/
the process of finding information, a place, or an object, especially for the first time, or the thing that ...
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Examples of startling discovery


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Only 18.5 per cent of members in the sample were unemployed, a rather startlingdiscovery.
When did he make this startlingdiscovery?
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As the second scenario shows, even the startlingdiscovery that pencils are alive need not have metasemantic implications.
After this startlingdiscovery, why is the target set so low as 200 million tons?
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It is not a particularly startlingdiscovery that on the whole they did.
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I am bound to say that that is a very startlingdiscovery.
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A startlingdiscovery is that it is bigger inside than outside.
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He had made the somewhat startlingdiscovery that it would allow school employees to monitor students' laptops remotely.
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The most startlingdiscovery was that on at least 32 recorded occasions, the movement of the lights synchronized with actions of the observers.
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As they venture inside and below the church, they make a startlingdiscovery: the abbey is built over the entrance to a vast subterranean cave system.
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In the 1990s, a dawning of a golden age of cosmology was accompanied by a startlingdiscovery that the expansion of the universe was, in fact, accelerating.
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