startling discovery

collocation in English

meaningsofstartlinganddiscovery

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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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(Definition ofstartlinganddiscoveryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Only 18.5 per cent of members in the sample were unemployed, a ratherstartlingdiscovery.
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When did he make thisstartlingdiscovery?
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As the second scenario shows, even thestartlingdiscoverythat pencils are alive need not have metasemantic implications.
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After thisstartlingdiscovery, why is the target set so low as 200 million tons?
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It is not a particularlystartlingdiscoverythat on the whole they did.
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I am bound to say that that is a verystartlingdiscovery.
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Astartlingdiscoveryis that it is bigger inside than outside.
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He had made the somewhatstartlingdiscoverythat it would allow school employees to monitor students' laptops remotely.
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The moststartlingdiscoverywas 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 astartlingdiscovery: 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 astartlingdiscoverythat the expansion of the universe was, in fact, accelerating.
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