Unastonishing

"Unastonishing" in a Sentence (3 examples)

The Samaritan woman went out that day, as she had, in all probability, myriad times before, to draw water: an unexciting, unastonishing event, that drawing of water;

With the emergence of a professionalized, academic class of philosophers, in close contact with one another’s thoughts and meeting regularly throughout the world for interchange of ideas, it is equally unastonishing that philosophers should by this time have banded together in closed cliques—analysts on one side, phenomenologists on another; pragmatists here, and existentialists here; and hostile subdivisions within these unarmed camps, aiming verbal barrages at one another.

This leads me to the unastonishing prediction that the STM alone would work very poorly for syllabisation, because it will not learn from the corpus, but only from the prefix of each utterance as it proceeds.

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