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[ adverb ] in an amazing manner; to everyone's surprise

Examples

"amazingly, he finished medical school in three years"

Used in print

(Arlin Turner, "William Faulkner, Southern Novelist"...)

Besides showing no inclination , apparently , to absent himself from his native region even for short periods , and in_addition writing a shelf of books set in the region , he has handled in those books an astonishingly complete list of matters which have been important in the South during the past hundred years .

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