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come as no surprise

come as no surprise verb: to be unsurprising; to be expected.

Verb

come as no surprise (third-person singular simple present comes as no surprise, present participle coming as no surprise, simple past came as no surprise, past participle come as no surprise)

  1. (set phrase) To be unsurprising; to be expected.
    • The President's team's order didn't come as a surprise.
    • Given those two points, it comes as no surprise that Miller declined to characterize permanent incorrigibility as such an eligibility criterion.2021, Jones v. Mississippi (U.S. Supreme Court No. 18–1259), Justice Kavanaugh

Forms of come as no surprise

third-person singular presentcomes as no surprise
present participlecoming as no surprise
pastcame as no surprise
past participlecome as no surprise

Questions about come as no surprise

What does come as no surprise mean?
Come as no surprise means to be unsurprising; to be expected.
What part of speech is come as no surprise?
Come as no surprise is a verb.
What is the past tense of come as no surprise?
The past tense of come as no surprise is came as no surprise.

Words near come as no surprise in the dictionary

  1. come and go
  2. come and gone
  3. come apart
  4. come apart at the seams
  5. come around
  6. come as no surprise
  7. come at
  8. come at a cost
  9. come at me
  10. come away
  11. come away empty

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