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surprise
These are words often used in combination with surprise. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it.
big surpriseIt was a big surprise to suddenly hear the tambourine.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
complete surpriseIn fact, most evinced complete surprise that their speech was of interest in the study.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
element of surpriseIn both of these latter cases, the element of surprise is removed and no time limit is put on the state of fury.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
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