taken aback
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Despite the rain, the King seemed determined to go outside, where crowds appeared taken aback to see this unexpected visitor and held up their phones in the drizzle.
From BBC
The hearing was told this was while the class were discussing mental health and life expectancy, with one pupil "taken aback" as she was "going through struggles" at the time.
From BBC
“I was taken aback by how the high end is so boosted,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times
The one-time frontrunner to fill out Harris’ ticket was taken aback by some of the digs in the book, as relayed to him by journalist Tim Alberta.
From Salon
The lawyer representing the Brown sisters and their mother said his clients were taken aback by Thomas’s claims.
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