Certainly
Certainly adverb - Without any question.
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Unsurprisingly and certainly are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Unsurprisingly" instead an adverb "Certainly".
Unsurprisingly
Certainly and unsurprisingly are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Certainly" instead an adverb "Unsurprisingly".
Nearby Words: unsurprising, unsurprised
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Reality Is Unrealistic: While the real Balian, unsurprisingly, was not an upwardly-mobile blacksmith, this trope certainly applies by the sheer number of critics of the film who thought the whole tale was made up, and that the various characters did not exist!
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He then starts reciting a history of William the Conqueror, an excerpt from a real history book by a guy named Havilland Le Mesurier Chepmell, as it's "the driest thing I know." It certainly is dry (boring), but it unsurprisingly fails to make Alice and the others any more dry (less wet).
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