unsurprising


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Synonyms for unsurprising

predictable

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Antonyms for unsurprising

not causing surprise

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Cocaine rose for the consecutive Eytan Alexander, CEO of private addiction firm UKAT, said: "Ten people dying a day because of drugs is horrific but unsurprising.
But unsurprising because the reforms did not go deep enough.
Summary: Prominent 1948 Palestinian filmmaker Mohammed Bakri's anti-Zionist statements, made in Beirut over the weekend, caused the Israeli culture minister to call for an investigation, something the museum director who invited Bakri to Beirut said was unsurprising Thursday.
Although organics are unsurprising, the spectrum Dawn picked up is clearer than hints of these materials previously seen on other main-belt asteroids, Maria Cristina De Sanctis (INAF IAPS, Italy) and others report in the February 17th Science.
A noteworthy, if unsurprising finding was that "LSSSE respondents who received merit scholarships were more likely to report favorable perceptions of their law school experiences and less likely to report high levels of stress."
In an almost unsurprising development, Microsoft's new Xbox One S has been leaked through several images prior to the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3).
Will Hodson, of consumer collective the Big Deal, said: "It's depressing but unsurprising that the Big Six are lobbying to bring back doorstep selling."
So, it's unsurprising that the centenary of his birth this month has been marked with a number of tributes.
With fewer hungry mouths to feed, it is perhaps unsurprising the biggest saving parents hope to make is on groceries, followed by fuel and utility bills.
But his stance was unsurprising given he released a contrite statement earlier today, a marked contrast to the position of Evans, who categorically denied spitting at his opponent in an account released by the Red Devils.
Speaking of the world's oldest profession, how unsurprising is it that Paramount TV and Jerry Bruckheimer are mulling over a small-screen series based on the 1980 feature film, "American Gigolo?'' I say unsurprising because -- what took them so long?
Alex Jones said that the positive response to the no makeup selfie hashtag phenomenon on social networks was unsurprising.
"It is unsurprising given the bedroom tax will reduce housing benefit income by nearly PS50million in 2013-14."
Zervas & Pepper @ Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff (Saturday ) * CARDIFF singer/songwriters Paul Zervas and Kathryn Pepper have been likened to the talents of Joni Mitchell and James Taylor which isn't unsurprising given their music is awash with nifty melodies and soaring harmonies.