unsurprising
The industry is unsurprisingly uneasy about their prospects this Christmas.
Unsurprisingly perhaps, their friendship faltered as his fame grew.
There are those who doubt her ability, but unsurprisingly she wouldn't agree.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Planning, expecting and arranging
accidentally
accidentally on purposeidiom
advertent
advisedly
aim at something
bargain
conscious
game something out
have something in mindidiom
have something up your sleeveidiom
horizon scanning
how are you fixed for something?idiom
pencil
provide for someone
provident
providently
provision
purpose
purposefully
settle

Examples of unsurprisingly

unsurprisingly
Perhaps significantly, and certainly unsurprisingly, such collective indulgences were not stated by their grantors to be directed explicitly at their own diocesan subjects.
Unsurprisingly given the selection criteria, the passivity group showed significantly higher levels of reality distortion.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, this volume's reach is both its greatest strength and its most formidable challenge.
As figure 2 shows the labour input of core workers remained relatively steady throughout the year, while that of casual workers had - unsurprisingly - summer peaks.
Unsurprisingly, then, there are a number of questions raised by the volume that are nowhere addressed.
Unsurprisingly, the music industry was not directly involved in the policy making, neither funding programmes nor organisations that served a public good.
The conflicting pressures and priorities emanating from the global and regional levels have, not unsurprisingly, promoted a division in the academic literature on regional integration.
Unsurprisingly, when an object is first mentioned it is usually realized over tly.
Where only modest changes has been attempted, unsurprisingly they have been achieved but with no great enhancement of consumer experience.
Unsurprisingly, the figure rose sharply with age, but no significant variation was reported by gender or rural-urban residence.
Unsurprisingly, the issue centred on who would have ultimate political power.
Unsurprisingly, none of the available documents sheds any light on what happened to the missing drawings and to the atelier's copy of the portfolio.
Equally, and unsurprisingly, having only weak nationalist values is a very good predictor of supporting a non-nationalist party.
Unsurprisingly, therefore, the editors' introductions are similarly contradictory.
Politicians unsurprisingly often opt for protectionism in response to pressure from domestic groups.
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