" Stevens was taken aback and responded with, "Excuse me?
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" Ms. Haaland, taken aback, replied, "I don't think so.
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Barr was taken aback, asking Harris to repeat the question.
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Carrie is so taken aback by Saul's accusations, she laughs.
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Lisa is visibly taken aback by the uncalled for statement.
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Even the new stars of Fuller House were taken aback.
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"Obviously, I was pretty taken aback by that," Avinash says.
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They are, however, taken aback by how quickly it happened.
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Under Harris's questioning, Kelly looked visibly taken aback multiple times.
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I'm taken aback by their strength and courage and determination.
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Rubio looked taken aback and started whispering with an aide.
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I was taken aback and I feel an emotional relationship.
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When they gathered in the greenroom, he was taken aback.
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I mentioned this to Adlon, and she seemed taken aback.
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But they have been taken aback by the vociferous opposition.
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"Walking through my district, everyone is so taken aback," Rep.
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Hannah is clearly taken aback and more confused than ever.
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He seemed taken aback by Justice Gorsuch's repeated hostile questions.
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Snow — by no means a Nixon fan — was taken aback.
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She looked taken aback, as if the answer were obvious.
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Even some of the Prestige dancers' mothers were taken aback.
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" Somewhat taken aback, Devine replied: "Bernie, you're a U.S. senator.
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Sang finally asked the boy's name — and was taken aback.
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WESTERVILLE, Ohio — Senator Elizabeth Warren looked down, performatively taken aback.
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And did he even care if anyone was taken aback?
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Mr. Herrou's accusers seemed most taken aback by his stubbornness.
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She was taken aback by how moving the testimony was.
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Only the threats against her seemed to take her aback.
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" Taken aback, Joan replied, "Mom, you gave birth to me.
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I was taken aback by some of its provocative assertions.
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Raddatz, to her great credit, was taken aback by this.
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When these questions started flying my way, I was taken aback.
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"I was taken aback by the cover," Washington wrote on Instagram.
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Although she seemed taken aback, Clinton is not an innocent bystander.
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Most seemed taken aback that I would even ask these questions.
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And sometimes, they're taken aback by the body's made up appearance.
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No one ever stopped to reconsider, or even seemed taken aback.
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"Booker, like all of us, was taken aback by this. "Injury?
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"I remember being so taken aback by that feeling," she says.
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I was just taken aback by the tone of the comments.
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I think that in general people were taken aback by that.
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Abe, visibly taken aback by the comment, responded with a laugh.
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I was taken aback; I'd thought Angie and I were friends.
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According to Kimmel, he was as taken aback as everyone else.
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Although Trump's attack took onlookers aback, it follows a familiar pattern.
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The Haggler was momentarily taken aback by the change of tone.
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The younger De Benedettis were taken aback by the paternal foray.
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For the first time this postseason, James's mates looked taken aback.
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I was taken aback and didn't quite know how to answer.
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All were taken aback by the public nature of Mnuchin's tweet.
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Even Solskjaer was taken aback by the reaction in the stands.
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Many who have listened to the recording are understandably taken aback.
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Even Macklemore was taken aback by all the money flying around.
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The rapper was taken aback by the $2.5 million price tag.
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The outpouring of grief expressed throughout China took the party aback.
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Her bosses were taken aback, but asked no follow-up questions.
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Mirren found herself taken aback by Catherine's flouting of sexual mores.
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He was taken aback by a lack of respect visitors showed.
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I'm a little taken aback— PRESIDENT TRUMP: Don't be surprised, no.
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That Trump was taken aback by the laughter is telling, too.
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I'm taken aback that this strict Hasidic woman wants me to.
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Luckily for Ariana, not everyone was taken aback by her outfit choice.
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Obama was sometimes taken aback by the special scrutiny her clothes received.
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They were more taken aback because I am so effeminate and flamboyant.
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Everyone from climate scientists to activists were taken aback by his tweetstorm.
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Raissi said he was taken aback by "the way" Harris was debating.
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I was a little taken aback, slightly weirded out but oddly aroused.
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"When I met you, I was taken aback," he says to Becca.
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"People are taken aback that something could be this realistic," asserts Adekunle.
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French investigators have been taken aback by the sophistication of IS operatives.
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Monica was taken aback and insisted she didn't really feel that way.
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Mnuchin seemed somewhat taken aback by the intense interest in the matter.
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" Taken aback, Sorscher said, "Let's build an airliner with this business model.
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Even many French observers sympathetic to Mr Macron have been taken aback.
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He also said he was taken aback by the comments Officer Spradlin.
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"I was taken aback by the depth of Kennedy's pain," Dowdy said.
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She was, however, taken aback when she saw our captain, Bjorn Fridbjornsson.
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In Mr. Darcy's telling, Facebook officials seemed taken aback by the question.
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" Taken aback, Johnson asked Clifford to study Westmoreland's request with "fresh eyes.
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Still, when the Monnaie de Paris called, Mr. Gaultier was taken aback.
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I was taken aback to see Adam Arkin was next in line.
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Mr. Walden was taken aback, said people who knew of the remark.
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The only thing that took me aback was the atmosphere of suspicion.
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I liked that he spoke his mind, but I was taken aback.
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When told that he had just dropped out, they were taken aback.
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I can't tell you how taken aback I am by this gesture.
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Some aviation industry analysts were taken aback at the plane's advanced age.
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Even veteran activists were taken aback by how swiftly the company responded.
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Still, U.S. officials sometimes have been taken aback by Israel's brazen spying.
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When visiting dignitaries meet him for the first time, they're taken aback.
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Mr. Biden was so taken aback, he cut his own answer short.
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Financiers also appeared taken aback, and heartened, by Mr. Biden's strong showing.
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I was taken aback by the level of rigor these projects demanded.
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She was taken aback by this bold display of a racial slur.
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But the animal researchers I talked to were taken aback by how hard.
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It's obvious Neighbor Bae is taken aback, when we hear another female's voice.
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So any theories about why Sansa is so taken aback by the fight?
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But he was taken aback by the complexity of creating a branching narrative.
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It was all moving so quickly that Benton and Newman were taken aback.
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People were so taken aback, the video spawned two hashtags: #BuzzFeedVideoQuestions and #RealBlackPeopleQuestions.
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When Bezos tells me the bit about the automated voice, I'm taken aback.
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" Explanation: Res told Frontline last September, "I was totally taken aback by this.
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Sessions, during the press briefing, said that he was "taken aback" by Sen.
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Butler thinks he would be taken aback by historians' efforts to rediscover him.
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He's so taken aback by the idea that consequences might ever reach him!
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At first taken aback by her abrasive manner, Bilal decides to help Happy.
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"I was just taken aback that our cake went so far," she said.
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"We were really taken aback by how sweet it was," Savren-McCormick said.
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Right away, I was taken aback by the carbonation assault on my tongue.
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Andrew, crestfallen and with a bruised ego, is taken aback by the rejection.
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Initially I'm sure that the officials there were taken aback by it all.
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I was more taken aback by the horse's jarring anatomically correct under-parts.
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According to the source, Cohen was stunned and taken aback by Avenatti's proposal.
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Still, photos that emerged from the stampede left many taken aback on Sunday.
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"I was taken aback," said Chief O'Leary, who visited the museum last March.
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A scout, present that day, remembers being taken aback by the player's appetite.
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Everyone had been taken aback by the child's failure to respond to them.
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" On his Instagram page, Nichols seemed taken aback by Lima's announcement. "Dumpedbyagirlon9/11?
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She is taken aback when Morin agrees and proposes to start a dialogue.
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Taken aback, Brion said that indeed he had, keeping the circumstances to himself.
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Museum visitors who encounter the occasional praying mantis display are often taken aback.
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The government has been taken aback by Intesa's surprise move, sources have said.
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But even some of the creditors are taken aback by the proposed cuts.
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In Moscow, Croatia fans said they were taken aback by their side's win.
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Spin Master was a bit taken aback by Hatchimals viral sensation in 2016.
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Online, Geek would have rolled with the comment, but Aimee was taken aback.
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He seemed taken aback when reporters questioned him about his private business clients.
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Mulinder is momentarily taken aback by the attack before shouting out in surprise.
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And it's why both men, reportedly, were taken aback by Trump's loyalty pledge.
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"I was pretty taken aback to see my boss half-dressed," she said.
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She was taken aback — it was the first she'd heard such a forecast.
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My face flushed and I was so taken aback, I really, truly was.
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All of the legislators were taken aback by Trump's comment, the Post reported.
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But, I have to be honest...I was taken aback by the cover.
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The rest of Twitter was similarly taken aback by Donald Trump's choice of film.
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As you can imagine, we weren't the only ones taken aback by Vogue's assertion.
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She says she was taken aback and declined the advance and he backed off.
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Typically, if someone were to suggest a dinner first date, I'd be taken aback.
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People have been really intrigued and really taken aback by the beauty of BRKFST.
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An aide said Trump has sometimes been taken aback by backlash to his retweets.
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"I was taken aback, but I kind of just went with it," she said.
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He seemed taken aback until I told him how much he meant to me.
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Kirby said that the US isn't the only country taken aback by Duterte's move.
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Ehrenreich appeared to be taken aback when he saw Ford and got up immediately.
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That's why we were taken aback when we saw her Snapchat story from Saturday.
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When she learned that she had won her primary, Pressley herself was taken aback.
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When she learned that she had won her race, Pressley herself was taken aback.
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First responders also noted being taken aback by Maliyah's conditions the morning she died.
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"I was pretty taken aback to see my boss half-dressed," said Melanie Sloan.
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I'm betting many in his own national security team were taken aback as well.
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" The CEO seemed to be taken aback, responding: "We feel like we're well advised.
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When a human in a Gumby suit approaches Jolene, she's at first taken aback.
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I was taken aback by how suddenly—and drastically—my internal age could vary.
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But he was taken aback by how unwelcoming the world was to new dads.
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If you are not already taken aback by this proposal, perhaps you should be.
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At that point, the raucousness of the Democratic response seemed to take Trump aback.
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The GOP vice presidential nominee, taken aback, paused before reiterating his support for Trump.
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Khan was taken aback by the call, but nevertheless he agreed to the interview.
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Lodderhose and Perkins initially looked taken aback, but Studholme had them under her spell.
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Trump's own staff was taken aback, and had to figure out how to respond.
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"Well I'm not sure what I can do with that," he says, taken aback.
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Like my editor-in-chief, I'm taken aback by the sheer audacity of this.
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Bronaugh says he was taken aback when he first learned about her tragic story.
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Fans were taken aback by the news that wizards once shit wherever they pleased.
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I was so taken aback; I had no idea what to make of it.
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"He was very taken aback that no one was communicating with him," Dietl said.
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Before trying the palettes, I was immediately taken aback by their high price tags.
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I was taken aback, however, by a couple of the writer's descriptions of events.
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He said in 2006 that Ms. Turner was taken aback when they first met.
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"I am taken aback," said Kim Sung-hwan, a former South Korean foreign minister.
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One Western adviser said that even he had been taken aback by the outrage.
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So I was a little taken aback that it did get the mixed reviews.
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Nevertheless, Niblett said he was taken aback by Trump's aggressive rebuke of climate activists.
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She is taken aback and refuses, saying she'd rather get to know him first.
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Some in the alumni community said they were taken aback by the school's decision.
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She laughs, taken aback by the power of her obsessions and her life's voyage.
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Trump looked taken aback by his reference to a dessert from her native Slovenia.
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But one of them did visit back in 19213, and he was taken aback.
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Even so, some might be taken aback by the actual scale of the issue.
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They are often taken aback because, understandably, they think they're doing a good thing.
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I remember being taken aback by how easy it was to talk to Dana.
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Still, Figueroa is taken aback, she conceded, when Messier asks about the latest Riveters game.
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Haley said she was initially taken aback by Walker's post, but eventually warmed to him.
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"I was taken aback that the governor disavowed ever having made the proposal," Berger added.
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But perhaps none were more taken aback than Noel Monk, the band's manager and friend.
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"Let me tell you what took me aback about that," he told New York magazine.
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"I was taken aback by the selflessness and the kindness that she had," Anahita says.
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He was taken aback by the lack of common ground discussed between the two candidates.
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I was taken aback when Google unveiled its steering wheel-less self-driving pod car.
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That's why I was so taken aback by Jon's screaming reaction to the car's power.
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Yet I was also taken aback and saddened by something I heard time and again.
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So I presented it to Dorian and Jayhawk, and they were kind of taken aback.
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Reportedly, Trump's legal team and even the prosecution was taken aback by the court's decision.
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Investors were taken aback by the sharp deceleration in American factory activity revealed on Thursday.
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In fact, the Fox News hosts were taken aback when Pruitt said something unexpectedly newsworthy.
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So he was naturally taken aback when he heard Mr. Trump insult Filipinos this month.
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He was taken aback; to purge Iran's sympathizers from the country would require a bloodbath.
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Hal was taken aback by her seeming willingness to discuss the expediency of her victimhood.
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Those behind the financial overhaul might be forgiven for being taken aback by the skepticism.
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When his question was met with an immediate roar, the President seemed genuinely taken aback.
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Bieschke: I just remember being super taken aback by everything about the place during Christmas.
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I watched a number of those specials again and was really taken aback by them.
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Even Kidman was taken aback by Theron's transformation when she first saw her on set.
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What did you not expect that you were perhaps taken aback by in that process?
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"I was sort of taken aback that that area felt sort of neglected," he said.
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Diaz seemed momentarily taken aback when asked why he had subjected himself to all this.
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I am still taken aback: the pettiness, the meanness, the extravagant flights of pure fantasy.
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"I'm really, really taken aback how unprepared we were for this," the female paramedic said.
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"I'm really, really taken aback how unprepared we were for this," the female paramedic said.
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"We were all taken aback by what he showed at the audition," Mr. Hallberg said.
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In the meantime, Mr. Cuomo's aides say they've been taken aback by a new phenomenon.
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Pelosi seemed taken aback by the gesture, as well as the sentiment, former aides remembered.
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Even he, a man used to the constancy of death, said he was taken aback.
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"When we saw the treatment, we were a little bit taken aback," Elliot told me.
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The air traffic controller seemed taken aback but quickly assured Shults he would handle it.
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She said she was taken aback when the city responded by telling her to move.
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Obokata was taken aback; she had never seen STAP cells exhibit a tendency to proliferate.
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Even President Obama was taken aback by the speed at which this tipping point tipped.
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Lashley was grilling steaks for dinner and was so relaxed that Romano was taken aback.
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Lashley was grilling steaks for dinner and was so relaxed that Romano was taken aback.
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I am taken aback, since people typically take the deepest pressure on their upper back.
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Doyle, apparently taken aback, was left sputtering for several seconds as murmurs rippled through the chamber.
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The YPG, taken aback by Trump's withdrawal decision, called on Damascus on Friday to protect Manbij.
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Others were visibly taken aback by the word alone, shaking their heads and widening their eyes.
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Thea told him both she and Jay had been taken aback by how angry he got.
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" Taken aback, Rubio said he only meant school shootings "cannot be solved by gun laws alone.
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The opposition, which had long sought papal mediation, was at first taken aback when it came.
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" The comment left CNN anchor Kate Bolduan, co-host of "At This Hour," taken aback. "What?
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And Spelling seems taken aback by Hawrylo's low blow when she compares Spelling's marriage to Carter's.
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Many have been taken aback by Jack Ma's Communist Party affiliation, which the honor list mentioned.
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Like many Americans, entrepreneur and software developer Krishna Kaliannan was taken aback by the 2016 election.
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Viewers of the programme were pretty taken aback to hear a Conservative politician quoting Harry Potter.
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Comments like these took me aback: they demonstrated the intricate ethical acrobatics Zayner was continuously performing.
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It was amazing watching the other people taken aback when meeting Gord for the first time.
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I was so taken aback one night when I was fighting a cold at 3 a.m.
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French investigators have also been taken aback by the sophistication of the IS external operations wing.
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When photos from the set first came out, fans were taken aback by Styles's drastic haircut.
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After ringing the doorbell of a suburban home, Jo is taken aback when the woman answers.
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I guess I was taken aback a little by how much of a thing it became.
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Probably taken aback by such an angry reaction, General Golan backtracked the next day, albeit unconvincingly.
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Mr. Panton, taken aback, informed his driver that Mr. Cruz had a bust of the Rev.
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"I was pretty taken aback to see my boss half-dressed," she told The Washington Post.
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"I'm taken aback and surprised by it, just like I'm sure everybody else is," he said.
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The girls are so excited and taken aback to see what's happening from what it was.
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It is striking how taken aback he was by the resentments and factions splitting House Republicans.
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I was taken aback, as I wasn't expecting this—I usually got this question from women.
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Upon meeting her, Mr. Douglas was taken aback by Ms. Simpson's small size and her demeanor.
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"The market was a little taken aback by Trump's comments recently about the meeting," he said.
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I was so taken aback that I came very close to answering her rhetorical question myself.
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He said he was "taken aback" when former co-op owners said they favored the foreclosures.
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The remark led to some murmuring and laughter in the crowd, taking the president slightly aback.
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Taken aback, she did not object, but soon began feeling ill, removed her hand and left.
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" He was taken aback by the reply from Sam, his daughter: "Yeah, we live with one.
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Even for a China veteran, I was taken aback by the heavy lawyering for this article.
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In an interview with ESPN during the game broadcast, he said he was completely taken aback.
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With [Criss Angel], I was just taken aback with what someone was trying to sell me.
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When she started out, some of her local collaborators were taken aback by her freewheeling approach.
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JENNA FISCHER This is a whole new world for us, so honestly we were taken aback.
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But his concern for Harrington's mental state evaporated after Harrington said something that took him aback.
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He seemed taken aback by the widespread attention paid to the Stills/Ross/Jay-Z controversy.
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He describes how he was taken aback initially at being questioned aggressively by a junior employee.
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Once he was on the ground, he was taken aback at the scale of the operation.
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Scalise looked somewhat taken aback or confused by the question before stating that he did not.
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"I was a little taken aback when I heard that," Mr. Bong said in an email.
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Lochte's own mother, Ileana, told Good Morning America she was a little taken aback as well.
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Even Cramer was taken aback by the blowout quarterly earnings report from Taser maker Axon Enterprise.
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Like China, Japan was taken aback by the sudden announcement of a US-North Korean summit.
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Her mother, the true star of the date, is taken aback, but she supports whatever Hannah wants.
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I was taken aback by this gesture as we had never held a conversation before that night.
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"I've been taken aback by the criticism but the positive response has outweighed the negative," Welch said.
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The commentators were also taken aback at the exciting race and what could've been a fatal collision.
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Former Banyana Banyana captain Desiree Ellis recalls seeing a young Modise in action and being taken aback.
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" The hosts were understandably taken aback with Ripa clarifying, "Wait, your ex-husband went on your honeymoon?
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"We were taken aback by the amount of stuff we had to go through," Jennifer Sullivan said.
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"I was taken aback, because we really have tried to shield him from the news," said Hackshaw.
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Honestly, I was taken aback by how such a little change can much such a big difference.
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Several complainants said they were particularly taken aback by their L.U.O. experiences because of Liberty's religious underpinnings.
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Trump was taken aback by the instant leak about an Oval Office fight about his political team.
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All this, it seems, was not lost on Todd, who was clearly taken aback by the comment.
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Executives at Goldman's headquarters in New York were taken aback by the backlash, a second person said.
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The supermodel, 21, was taken aback by a fan's comment that Drake "probably" had sex with her.
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Jack is at first taken aback, since Kate is only 10, then agonizes, fearing she'll be rejected.
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While I understand that teenagers say things for shock value, I was taken aback by his confession.
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The writers and producers were a bit taken aback when Casey requested a different type of menu.
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" But Ivanovic was taken aback when another reporter said, "It is your last tournament as a `Miss'.
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Despite the existence of rule #34, even I was taken aback by the existence of Fortnite porn.
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" Another tweet reads "@Drake look so taken aback with @NICKIMINAJ performance he don't know where to look.
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For that reason, I have been taken aback by many false accounts of his views and background.
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But evidence of the Islamic State's brutality took aback even some of the most battle-hardened soldiers.
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The dish may look weird, but it's the bright combination of flavors that truly takes customers aback.
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Tallini consolidated his federal education debt, and when he saw his new balance he was taken aback.
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Sources also old Recode some in the meeting were taken aback by the attendance of Trump's children.
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This reporter was in the middle of it, at first taken aback as strangers huddled around me.
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Then I saw him in person and was taken aback by the man's passion for his craft.
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I'm so used to foams and scrubs that I was taken aback by its lotion-like consistency.
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But even many of Mr. Xi's admirers have been taken aback by his bid for indefinite rule.
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Mr. Murphy said he has been taken aback by the ad and Ms. Guadagno's shift toward immigration.
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It's the first time she'd seen one in the wild like this, and it took her aback.
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I was braced for another scolding, and was taken aback when she apologized for her earlier reaction.
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I'm taken aback that he is offering to pay for this, considering the check is almost $03.
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Akins was taken aback when, several months into her job, García asked her out on a date.
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For Mr. Lemann's part, he was initially taken aback by how quickly things progressed with Berkshire Hathaway.
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In both cases, I've been a little taken aback and surprised by the response to these films.
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Dumoulin was a bit taken aback when he saw how seriously the international competitors approached the tournament.
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Huddy was so taken aback and repulsed that she instinctively recoiled and actually fell to the ground.
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On being assured that it was, and that it nonetheless remained stubbornly joyless, Tanton looked taken aback.
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"We were all taken aback," said Geno Auriemma, who was her coach at the University of Connecticut.
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I was so taken aback by the ride that I spaced out and forgot to check his time.
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Colton was so taken aback by Cassie's "Week 9" rejection because he clearly saw a future with her.
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Kondrak and Hauer were taken aback, as they went into the project thinking it was formed from Arabic.
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Rogers was taken aback but tried to respectfully explain why he could not do so, the officials said.
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Within minutes, I had received a few flirty messages so, uh, "flirty" that I was slightly taken aback.
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Many were taken aback by the confident, unapologetic and far from politically correct New York businessman -- including me.
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But even then, I was often taken aback by the ask, as if I'd been handed a VCR.
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MT: I was initially quite taken aback by how intimately psychical research and early experimental psychology were intertwined.
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Nonetheless, Lloyd was taken aback by the fact that she had the opportunity to talk to the president.
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While interviewing for brand manager roles, Norville Barrington remembered two instances when the interviewers' comments took him aback.
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Some staffers were taken aback to receive a 182-page handbook on rules and tips for staffing Wen.
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"As soon as I stepped in I was taken aback by how trashed the place was," he said.
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We've been reading the reaction to our latest advertising campaign and needless to say, we're quite taken aback.
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"[Abed] was very taken aback by the goodness of a complete stranger," said Slominski of her cousin's reaction.
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Like many people who met her for the first time, Beam was taken aback by her deep voice.
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" Given the crude comments, people were obviously a little taken aback by his self-appointed title of "gentleman.
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When the crowd's unrelenting roar finally came to a halt, Ms. Osato paused and was visibly taken aback.
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But a lot of people in Sevnica are taken aback with the sudden attention their town is getting.
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It was my son—and I was truly taken aback that I did not know him from Adam.
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" Her mother is visibly taken aback and says, "That is not a compliment ... You are beautiful, period. OK?
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Other figures in the civil rights world were taken aback by the Kings' embrace of a convicted killer.
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"To be honest, I am surprised and taken aback at the board's decision," he said in a statement.
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Their explicit references to faith are so rare that when they come out, listeners are somewhat taken aback.
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Gomez, a youthful 41-year-old who is a son of Mexican immigrants, seemed a bit taken aback.
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"It's shocking, each and every time, you're taken aback every time you open one," Nixon told CBS 46.
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Standing on the lawn in front of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., I was taken aback.
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Cramer was taken aback when shares of Disney and Walmart got slammed after the companies announced new investments.
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I must admit, I was personally taken aback when nearly every hand in the room immediately shot up.
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I'd been taken aback, seeing him, his still face so sombre in repose, with a slightly grayish tinge.
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And when she asked about the fire-safety situation — alarms, extinguishers and exits — the landlord seemed taken aback.
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"I was surprised, I was taken aback by the ignorance," Pancholy said on "CNN Tonight" on Friday evening.
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Many Americans have been taken aback by the ways in which Donald Trump has ruthlessly exercised presidential power.
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Regardless, Scherzer reportedly was taken aback by the front office saying this out loud and on the record.
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I remember being taken aback that it was coming from someone I then perceived to be a dude.
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He was taken aback by Hamilton's Federalist blueprint for transforming the new United States into an economic powerhouse.
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Still, some people are taken aback when they see the Azmis with their hockey sticks in their hijabs.
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The actress was more than a little taken aback, but still remained composed enough to stifle a laugh.
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Some reviewers — primed for the broader comedy of May's first two films — were taken aback by its darkness.
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Some officials were taken aback to see reporters at their meetings, said Calvin Robinson, one of the reporters.
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Here are a few direct quotes: Even Trump would probably be taken aback by some of this stuff.
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Obviously the people present were completely taken aback at this sight and needed several moments to compose themselves.
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Unlike some of the administration officials fired before her, Ms. Nielsen was hardly taken aback by the news.
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Then when I hit puberty, I became much more temperamental and explosive, and my parents were taken aback.
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So she was taken aback at a congressional hearing last year when Republicans questioned the well-established philosophy.
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I'm not used to asking for help or being rejected this often, so I was really taken aback.
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Asked about the implications of bringing such a power into the world, Mr. Ton-That seemed taken aback.
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Raz wasn't taken aback or angered by that, he simply felt you had to take it into account.
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Holderness said that she was taken aback by Conway's comments on CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday.
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Ryan, taken aback about being asked about the vote he took in his first year in Congress, laughed.
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By the middle of the summer, even Gajiwala was taken aback by how popular White Claw had become.
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At $211 billion — double initial estimates — the amount Toshiba paid to take control of Westinghouse took many aback.
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Even CNBC's Jim Cramer was taken aback by the blowout quarterly earnings report from Taser maker Axon Enterprise.
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Glickman said she was taken aback by the visceral reaction from some of her friends, acquaintances and neighbors.
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Away from New York, some audiences were taken aback by the musical's language and frank depiction of sexuality.
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The sheikha's advocates were taken aback that a respected human rights crusader had seemingly embraced Dubai's official line.
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"Jeopardy" contestants who had met Mr. Trebek recently were as taken aback by the announcement as anyone else.
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In 1974, India reported a peak 188,000 cases; when Hopkins arrived, he was taken aback by the population density.
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She says she expected the storm to be bad but was still taken aback by the hurricane's destructive power.
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The wrestler, meanwhile, was visibly taken aback by their emotional reaction and watched on with tears in his eyes.
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When Villanueva was seen standing in front of them for the anthem, some of his teammates were taken aback.
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" Ripa, 48, and Seacrest, 44, were taken aback with Ripa asking, "Wait, your ex-husband went on your honeymoon?
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Gurung sees democracy in style, so he was taken aback by his fashion contemporaries lack of desire to diversify.
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Nowadays when Zimbabweans visit London and New York they're taken aback by how backward those legacy financial systems seem.
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This time "these words are coming from the president of the United States," she said, sounding genuinely taken aback.
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The Internet was taken aback by the new 'do, given that Damon didn't have long hair to begin with.
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Redding was taken aback and told Murray not to divulge the information to anyone, especially not to the drivers.
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At times, Clinton seemed taken aback by what Trump was doing, which allowed him to land a few blows.
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Rousey has said he was taken aback by the proposal, which happened during a romantic getaway to New Zealand.
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Paltrow also revealed she was even more taken aback because of her first pregnancy with daughter Apple, now 13.
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We saw a glimmer of this last week when Elizabeth was taken aback to see him with another woman.
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When they found out they were having an American cheese, they were taken aback and so, so, so surprised.
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"The utter depravity of Islamic State is something that has taken my colleagues and certainly myself aback," he says.
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But when it became clear that exactly that had happened, they seemed, if not surprised, at least taken aback.
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When I glanced at the band onstage at the old Emo's in Austin in 2011, I was… taken aback.
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The president was at first taken aback when Pelosi called it a "Trump shutdown," asking her to repeat herself.
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I was quite taken aback that people would allow their lipomas to grow so massive before seeking an intervention.
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Mexicans seemed taken aback by the brutality and by the government's seeming inability to do much about the violence.
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Taken aback by the criticism, the President began trying to reframe the discussion in tweets aboard Air Force One.
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"I was taken aback by this gesture as we had never held a conversation before that night," DaSilva wrote.
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Mr. Arias-King remains friendly with Mr. Morris but was taken aback when informed of Mr. Morris's new job.
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"I was taken aback by why on earth they had not received this peak," he told NRK last year.
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The two were taken aback by how strong a resemblance they bore to one another, despite being total strangers.
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So when the first trailers for "Moana" were released earlier this year, many fans of Maui were taken aback.
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"I think they were kind of taken aback by the fact that we were so hype," Ms. Vargas recalled.
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She was taken aback by just how much the counterfeit pills look like the ones sold by pharmaceutical companies.
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"I was just taken aback and shocked about football and why it was driving the whole thing," Few said.
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Lighthizer and U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin were taken aback at the extent of the changes in the draft.
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I was, however, taken a bit aback by the fact that it just went ahead and dropped touch altogether.
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What are the benefitsWhen I first heard that one Larq bottle costs $95, I was a little taken aback.
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He was taken aback, noting that he regularly conducted contemporary work, especially when he led the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic.
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At the climate town hall Wednesday night, Biden seemed taken aback at a question about his association with Goldman.
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We spoke to young Republicans who were taken aback by the revelations that came out of Cohen's explosive testimony.
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"I was taken aback," said Ms. Wruble in her first extensive interview about her experience organizing the Women's March.
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It was far from the city's roughest neighborhood, but Pugh was visibly taken aback by the disorder on display.
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Despite that first interaction, I walked into the hotel and was immediately taken aback by its Instagram-worthy decor.
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Indian experts and residents of Ahmedabad were taken aback by the news of the Zika cases in the city.
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Ms. Miller, a registered Democrat, said in a telephone interview that she was taken aback by Ms. Linton's words.
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"From day one, people in the industry were often taken aback by my resemblance to my mom," Gerber wrote.
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Keep heading in that direction, Stephen, and you'll understand why so many people were taken aback by your tweet.
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" Those things included one incident in the summer of 2012 that Su said left him "surprised and taken aback.
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Bottom is taken aback, in "A Midsummer Night's Dream," when Titania wakes and swoons at the sight of him.
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A publicist for Spicer told the AP that the former press secretary was "taken aback" by the "outrageous" claim.
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So I was taken aback when he told me that he'd just dropped out for want of institutional support.
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Many of Mr. Bean's fellow astronauts were evidently taken aback by his choosing the art world over private business.
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It kind of was one of those moments where I was just taken aback and I just was affected.
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Rosario was taken aback at how much independence Fanny had acquired when it came to makeup, money and outings.
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"When the President brought it up to me, I was taken aback," Graham told "Fox and Friends" on Friday.
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Ravinder J. Singh, who runs a testing lab at the Mayo Clinic, was taken aback by the sudden deluge.
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Cryptocurrencies are notoriously volatile, but even seasoned traders were taken aback by the price action on Wednesday and Thursday.
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Josephine Beckmann, the district manager for Community Board 10, said she was "taken aback" by the outcry from residents.
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Former Trump campaign adviser Barry Bennett was taken aback by the contempt some staff reportedly have for the president.
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How can we — academics and other commentators who were taken aback by last week's result — make sense of it?
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Rosario was taken aback at how much independence Fanny had acquired when it came to makeup, money and outings.
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When I asked one very wealthy stay-at-home mother what her family's assets were, she was taken aback.
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And when I look at sipping a cup of tea, I am a little taken aback by the criticism.
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Indeed Ms. Ambartsumian's parents — her mother a psychiatrist, her father, an electrical engineer — may well have been taken aback.
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Like everyone else, they were taken aback by Trump's win, but during the transition they found him surprisingly amiable.
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Those in attendance knew the choreography and weren't taken aback when Kaiser spun 'round and 'round like a seasoned dancer.
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She was immediately taken aback, however, when Zoe lovingly placed her arm over her sister's back and snuggled into her.
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I was taken aback seeing Hemings initially described in a headline as Jefferson's mistress (the Post later changed the headline).
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Campaign operatives and DNC officials present were taken aback when NBC officials deliberated behind closed doors to make the decision.
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I understood this, but when our professors referred to our cadavers as our very first patients, I was taken aback.
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Iraq, a key American ally against Islamic State, was "taken aback," having learned of the ban through American news media.
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Although Jennings is initially taken aback by being set up with a female, she is open-minded about an introduction.
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Addressing his letter "Dear Owners," Byrne said he was taken aback by the "unanticipated stir" caused by his stock sale.
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But I was taken aback by how accurately the headset placed the floating AR elements in and around the car.
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MURDOCH: I think that what has taken me aback has been how excited the media is that this might fail.
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However, when DeGeneres pulled up a shirtless photo of Pratt, even the star was taken aback by how he looked.
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But after a moment of Dave being taken aback, then apologizing quickly to Roland, this story fades into the background.
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But I found out fairly early on, and I was definitely a little taken aback (laughs) in a good way.
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Even change proponents, skeptical that two-thirds of Bay View members could ever agree, were taken aback at the result.
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"We had no idea of her involvement in any of this and it has all taken us aback," Toufexis says.
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Later, when she actually gives birth, everyone is taken aback by the revelation that she's having babies in the plural.
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As Politico reported, Trump was apparently "taken aback" when Senator Chuck Schumer told him he was making a big mistake.
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Ackman watched Johnson's explosion live and was taken aback at how angry he appeared, even feeling threatened by the outburst.
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Read more: A major healthcare startup's HR chief was 'taken aback' when a hiring manager asked her this probing question.
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CNBC's Jim Cramer was taken aback when shares of Disney and Walmart got slammed after the companies announced new investments.
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I was almost taken aback when I bit into the strip, in part because I could barely bite into it.
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The Post said Trump was referring to Haiti, El Salvador and African countries, and that his remarks took lawmakers aback.
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I was rather taken aback to say the least, but that was typical of Harry—he is a lovable rotter.
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Taken aback, he remarked briefly on his client meetings in the Alps, and then returned the floor to Mr. Blankfein.
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I told that to an Irish audience on the day of the book's launch there, and it took them aback.
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But even she seems taken aback by the latest affront: a court order requiring her to take a psychiatric evaluation.
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I was taken aback by Jerry's fondness for canned ham; he was appalled by my occasional dinner of cold cereal.
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Whatever the original intent of the project, it seems quite clear that Verily was taken somewhat aback by the announcement.
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JOSE MORENO For whatever reason, I was taken aback when I first saw President Obama's portrait with the floral background.
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The former mayor lowered his head at the comment, seemingly taken aback by the power of what Biden was saying.
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Alayna, who was in Utah visiting relatives, was taken aback when she found out what Finau did for a living.
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Mr. Weltner, the serious nom comm member with the short lists, was taken aback by the "aura" of Jennifer Lopez.
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Well, first of all, he looks somewhat taken aback by the end of this handshake with the Emir of Kuwait.
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Meanwhile, investigators were "taken aback" by the small size of the ship's emergency hatch, according to a previous Times report.
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Joe Biden, whose debate position was secure, appeared to be taken aback when a reporter told him what had changed.
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Mr. Churchill and Ms. Rogers said they were taken aback by the long list that Rockbridge county officials gave them.
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Mike Chi, the chief marketing officer of Zola, said he was taken aback by Hallmark's decision to pull the ads.
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During the spring and summer, as Dershowitz pressed his position, even some old allies were taken aback by his rhetoric.
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When Michael Kremer looked at the data for a study underway in Kenya in the 1990s, he was taken aback.
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But, Then Again, Come On A bully shows up, is hateful, says things so crude we liberals are taken aback.
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The first few times Kristin wore them to class instead of her dance shoes I was a bit taken aback.
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"I was just sort of taken aback by the lady's comment," he says of the interviewer who prompted his remark.
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Demi Lovato's ex-boyfriend Wilmer Valderrama was taken aback after news that the singer suffered an apparent overdose on Tuesday morning.
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Among the glistening dunes of New Mexico's White Sands National Monument, scientists have been taken aback by the discovery of footprints.
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We were confused & taken aback... We did send out an instant response, which may have been a bit too quick & emotional.
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"I think when a lot of people come to Alaska, they're just taken aback by how beautiful it is," she said.
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The creative, sometimes quirky strategies took traditional investors aback and were often of interest more for idle chatter than actual portfolios.
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She even seemed taken aback upon learning that an officer, like herself, had used a personal email address for official business.
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For one, people were taken aback by the optics of taking, and then sharing, professional-grade photos of her actual accident.
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Sally was not scared, she was simply taken aback by hearing someone so vehemently disagree with her in a public space.
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From this new perspective, we are taken aback by the ease with which the chef directs his staff: gently, fluidly, unhurriedly.
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The art world was taken aback by the news that Patrick Drahi, a French telecoms tycoon, is buying Sotheby's for $3.7bn.
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Immediately, Natalie was taken aback when he asked her if she had "completed transition," meaning had she undertaken genital reconstruction surgery.
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And he was finally so taken aback by her — because she was like 'Where are you going to be tomorrow night?
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Given all the reasons for restraint, many observers have therefore been taken aback by the strength of credit growth this year.
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I'm taken aback at first, but then I decide that it's not exactly out of character for him, and C. agrees.
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However, when she heard the song for the first time, she was taken aback as the hook was extremely sped up.
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She asked who the person worked for, and was taken aback when she was told it was one of her employees.
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He is taken aback by how long it's been, I can tell, because he purses his lips and says nothing more.
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I was taken aback: American women still die in childbirth at an alarmingly high rate, the highest in the developed world.
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That was not a scientific survey, but I was taken aback by the fact that no one else seemed very surprised.
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I was so taken aback by the love I was receiving from someone who was almost a total stranger to me.
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House Speaker Paul Ryan, who has endorsed Trump, appeared taken aback when he heard about Trump's praise of Hussein, CNN reports.
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Many Norwegians were taken aback by Breivik's complaints of cold coffee and microwaved meals that he said were "worse than waterboarding".
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Many were privately taken aback at the equivocal remarks, though most have lost the ability to be shocked by Trump's behavior.
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What's different is that this time, reporters felt taken aback that the self-professed scholar would stoop to such low depths.
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In fact the White House was so taken aback that Sean Spicer to hide in the bushes (sorry, "among the bushes").
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When Lyft unveiled its All-Access plan last year, many were taken aback by the hefty price of $299 per month.
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I was so taken aback, I even called down to the front desk to make sure this was really my room.
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He, too, was taken aback by the knowledge that a fundamental aspect of Greek statuary "had been so excluded" from study.
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Most of all, however, Kaplan, Levien and the Swansea chairman, Huw Jenkins, were taken aback by the depth of Bradley's knowledge.
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At the 2008 Democratic convention in Denver, I was taken aback by the marketing extravaganza behind "clean coal," a fictional product.
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"And when I look at sipping a cup of tea, I am a little taken aback by the criticism," she said.
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But asked if he knew the disease could be transmitted via sex as well as mosquitoes, Mr. Espinal was taken aback.
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In mid-June, I was taken aback twice during a walk in the woods near our home in the Hudson Highlands.
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Fans were taken aback by the news and some were disappointed if this is the story arc his character will take.
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PATRICK MCGEEHAN: Still, John, many people seem taken aback to learn that there is no mandatory testing of water in schools.
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Jones is so open about her feelings for Goude—explaining how much she adored him—that he is clearly taken aback.
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I was taken aback by the accurate description of my life that this man I'd never met before was giving me.
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When he asked me for my kidney, I was taken aback — but I also knew he wouldn't make this request lightly.
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The moderator was as taken aback as we were, but she waved her hand over to two seats at the table.
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Giuseppina Antognini, the owner of the painting, said she was "taken aback" to discover that the work might not be authentic.
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She had brought a Syrian friend who, taken aback at the way the other beachgoers dressed, kept a tank top on.
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Pentagon officials said they, too, were taken aback by Mr. Trump's tweets, particularly given the American military's deep ties to Qatar.
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Though Ms. Liu was taken aback, she eventually agreed to the terms but told few people in the U.S. attorney's office.
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Visibly taken aback by the response, Blitzer pressed Hughes if she truly wanted riots to break out at the Republican convention.
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She'd been out shopping, and she was a little taken aback when she heard her husband explain what he'd been discussing.
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So the professor was taken aback when Mr. Johnson publicly named him chairman of a team investigating a Thames estuary airport.
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His sons were taken aback by the pet food aisle, and the idea that food would be manufactured specifically for cats.
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I already knew fruit was loaded with sugar, so I was not taken aback to see mango as my biggest culprit.
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While initially taken aback by the excess of the student's goals, Copeland realized that his ambitions came from a good place.
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Investors were also taken aback when May criticized the "bad side effects" of the BoE's low interest rates and bond-buying.
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I was taken aback by the equanimity with which the women I interviewed spoke of the hardships they've endured since 1991.
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Maybe it should seem obvious, but I was taken aback by the significance inherent to every procedure she has ever undergone.
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" Taken aback, Abramovitz's mind began to spin, concluding that "there must be something I don't know if everyone thinks I got in.
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Those who viewed Bush 43's Iraq comments seriously, but not literally, were somewhat taken aback when the U.S. moved on Iraq.
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Coats was on camera while at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado when news broke of the invitation, clearly taking him aback.
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While most of her followers were taken aback by Jenner's stunning appearance, there was one comment that stood out among the rest.
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He was taken aback to learn that the Americans knew of a secret nuclear facility that had not been part of discussions.
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Neither UPS nor FedEx seem to be especially taken aback by this, based on their non-comment comments in the WSJ report.
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I'm taken aback by this and am nervous for his safety, but excited for him because I know he lives for this.
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When the inevitable question about the power couple's divorce came up, Clooney was as taken aback as the rest of the world.
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He also described her as selfless, completely taken aback when he told her at one point that she would run for office.
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In an interview with Uproxx, Killam seemed taken aback by NBC's decision not to pick up his contract for the upcoming season.
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Tuesday's (only slightly passive aggressive) blog post reads:We were taken aback by this assertion, which came without any supporting data or methodology.
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Because it was Loki's first time dating a pop star, he was pretty taken aback by the fuss over a tank top.
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"Hey, nice to meet you!" he said, holding out his hand to the woman who was visibly taken aback at his presence.
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In a December 2016 interview with Good Housekeeping magazine, the actor said he was taken aback by Bell when they first met.
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"I'm taken aback because I can't reconcile the court's precedents with this decision," said Patricia Lawrence-Kolaras, a lawyer for Kelly-Brown.
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Like a lot of devotees, I was taken aback by it, but seeing it in action, I began to understand the appeal.
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He says he was taken aback by the level of animosity directed at what he saw as a sensible piece of legislation.
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In that scenario, who among us wouldn't feel compelled to act politely, no matter how taken aback they were by the comments?
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Elio is taken aback, at the start, by Oliver's swagger—the hesitant youth, steeped in Europe, confronted with can-do American chops.
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He plays Lloyd Vogel, a magazine journalist who, priding himself on tough assignments, is taken aback when told to interview Mr. Rogers.
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Although Murphy said she was "very taken aback at the time," she later told CNN that she "wasn't offended" by the kiss.
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Former "Love Island" contestant Rykard Jenkins was taken aback when he was sent a photo of himself from a fan in California.
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Speaking to CNN, Wigmore acknowledged he was taken aback by Trump's reaction to his comments but said he didn't regret the indiscretion.
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"Every time I was taken aback and thought to myself, 'Wow, I really just went for it and did that,'" she added.
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CNBC's Jim Cramer said Wednesday he was taken aback by Steven Mnuchin and Wilbur Ross' proposed policy agendas under a Trump administration.
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Ulmer was taken aback, he said, when Bannon began talking about Hillary Clinton's likely campaign for the Presidency in the next election.
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" Question: A recent report by CNN said that Comey was taken aback when Trump asked for something akin to a "loyalty pledge.
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The first time she came to a screening, Lawler was taken aback, shocked by the sight of the guru covered with women.
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Still, many of us were rightfully taken aback when news broke that he'd momentarily ditched dance music to drop an acoustic album.
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I took a look in the mirror and was quite taken aback by how the swelling altered the topography of my face.
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I really enjoyed the onomatopoeia today in words like SNARF, HUM and TUT, and some unexpected cluing — ABACK, SPF, AIMS and others.
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Ms. Bale, a reporter for National Geographic's Wildlife Watch, said that while what happened was "problematic," she was not too taken aback.
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A father looks thrilled and taken aback when looking at his daughter in her wedding dress in this photo by Maggie Nunn.
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We should never underestimate the joy of being taken aback by something completely off-kilter onstage — it doesn't happen all that often.
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I was a bit taken aback by all of the hard work that goes into the development of a live service title.
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Sources in the room said lawmakers were taken aback by the slides but that the mood after the presentation was generally lighthearted.
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I was taken aback at first: Was it appropriate for these foreigners to come to America to take part in the campaign?
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" Even host Steve Doocy seemed somewhat taken aback by Trump's claims and responded by asking him, "Are you sure they did that?
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In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, she said she was "taken aback" by the narrow emergency hatch and tight exit.
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Most callers were taken aback to hear a woman's voice on the phone, she said, and wouldn't call back a second time.
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The lawyers — particularly Kasowitz — have been taken aback by the infighting in the West Wing, according to people familiar with their thinking.
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He also added that he was once so taken aback by a woman applying makeup on a train that he changed carriages.
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And while Brad is taken aback, it's Brett who appears most concerned over an incident the rest of the fraternity finds hilarious.
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Reporters used to getting bashed online by Duterte's diehard supporters appeared taken aback by messages of solidarity among media at home and abroad.
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Uniper was taken aback by Fortum's planned bid, which the German company said was "unsolicited" and "clearly not in line" with its strategy.
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Nintendo apparently never thought the NES Classic Edition would be anything more than a Christmas novelty, and were taken aback by its popularity.
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When we met I was taken aback by his energy and drive, his dedication to his craft and the sheer kindness he exuded.
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So, when I heard the stylists there were watering down the shampoo at the hair-washing stations, I was a little taken aback.
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First, the question is put to more than 100 children, and Mr Gameau says that he was taken aback by their mature answers.
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Shepard said he was taken aback by Bell's "unbridled happiness" when they first met in 2007 at a birthday dinner for mutual friends.
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She adds that the other contestants were taken aback by "Donald's obvious delight" in hearing his daughter being described in such a manner.
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Although he was briefly taken aback by the pairing, Rex said he'd seen plenty of natural oddities during his life on the land.
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Joe Biden seemed taken aback when Kamala Harris went after him in the first round of Democratic presidential debates in Miami last month.
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Perhaps that's one reason why we shouldn't be taken aback to see his confident edge reaching the hordes on the Elland Road terraces.
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"I went to greet her before the show and were taken aback at how thin and frail she appeared," he shared on Instagram.
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"I was very taken aback that I hadn't seen it for two years, but it was nothing but heartwarming and sincere," she says.
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Like Rapp, I, too, was taken aback, stunned really, by the stream of #metoo posts after the Harvey Weinstein revelations came to light.
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Leno later gets a chance behind the wheel of the SRT8 and is taken aback by how its handles even at high speeds.
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The reaction to the event has largely been positive, although Moses did say some people were initially taken aback by the event's name.
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Dax Shepard was taken aback by Kristen Bell's "unbridled happiness" when they first met in 2007 at a birthday dinner for mutual friends.
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Schiff on CNN added that he is "taken aback" by Giuliani's legal strategy, which he said has been "deeply hurtful" to Trump's case.
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I already knew this about her, but I was still taken aback just how bracing it felt a few moments into the performance.
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The official, who declined to be named, told CNBC that China had been taken aback by the Trump administration's "not so polite" approach.
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Longtime execs were taken aback, and even hurt, by the loss of their employees' trust, which they had come to take for granted.
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Knightley, whose previous historical movies include "Pride & Prejudice" and "The Duchess," said she was taken aback by how current the "Colette" script felt.
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He said that he was taken aback when he was told on Tuesday that the mayor would be making an announcement this week.
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Turned out a current Syracuse student had asked J where he was from, and when J told him, the student was taken aback.
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During the visit, Homendy said she was "taken aback" by the size of the ship's emergency hatch, according to The Los Angeles Times.
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Mr. Buttigieg, who seemed taken aback by the clip, said with a laugh that he felt bad about how harsh he had been.
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The reality that the character of the Doctor means a lot to a lot of people, however, does seem to take Beahm aback.
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The reality that the character of the Doctor means a lot to a lot of people, however, does seem to take Beahm aback.
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The Tacanas had spent years fighting previous governments over the project, but they were taken aback when Mr. Morales began pushing for it.
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With adults taken aback by the order's constitutional and moral status, it's no surprise that kids and teens are experiencing confusion and uncertainty.
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The young crowd was more taken aback when Avicii brought out a co-songwriter, Mac Davis, who had written hits for Elvis Presley.
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Sara Dulaney and Brian Dulaney, Germantown, Md. Claire Grantham was taken aback when she saw Sam Grantham, her boyfriend at the time, dancing.
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" Clarkson was taken aback by the confession, admitting, "I love that you've even heard it!" to which Lauper quipped back, "Are you kidding?
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Taken aback by his candor, Ms. White agreed, though she still left to deliver the news to the other suitor face to face.
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"I'm even pleasantly taken aback by this over-the-top interest in Iowa," said Jeff Kaufmann, the chairman of the Iowa Republican Party.
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Standing GuardGarland, the commander, said he was taken aback when he learned of U.S. intelligence indicating that Iranian missiles would strike within hours.
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Others were taken aback that Ms. Cain squatted in the house last summer, and intended to draw a salary from the fund-raising.
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And yet, watching the first night of the Republican National Convention, last July, Marks was taken aback when his old friend appeared onscreen.
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When Rochester women organized a follow-up gathering, many of the Seneca leaders were taken aback that there was a female presiding officer.
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And even we were somewhat taken aback by what a positive response our inclusion of Bullock last month got from smart Democratic insiders.
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The conference was themed around the idea of the Western alliance fading, leaving Republicans who attended "taken aback" and defensive, according to Politico.
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Having worked in the Senate in the 1990s, I'm still taken aback whenever I hear senators asking McConnell to "allow" a vote. Allow?
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West Virginia University's Kilwein, for instance, said that he was "taken aback" by Ojeda's decision to run for president after losing the House race.
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If I saw a scene [in a movie] like that one now, I think I would be taken aback and even a little offended.
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He came back shaken: Apparently Khrushchev sort of upbraided him for being a young, inexperienced rich kid, and Kennedy was sort of taken aback.
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Many in the UK left were taken aback by the scale of anti-Semitism in our ranks and the lack of awareness over it.
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But Trump's "mercurial" temperament during the last election is also giving Republicans, who were taken aback when Trump backed a challenger to then–Rep.
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During a brief confrontation, the Hound appears taken aback by the new zombie fighter version of his brother, but still vows to end him.
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In a letter addressed to investors as "Dear Owners," Byrne said he was taken aback by the "unanticipated stir" caused by his stock sale.
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But the government was taken aback when Sir Michael Fallon, a former defence secretary and loyal party man, declared that the deal was "doomed".
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Chapman was so taken aback by their change in attitude towards her that she thought one sister's Facebook account had been hacked, she said.
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Even after Frank Roa gave his lofty assessment of Tapia's abilities, Fernandez was taken aback the first time he saw the two-strike approach.
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When she met him, she was so taken aback by his hotness that she proceeded to spew lies about her own devotion to yoga.
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"Investors are taken aback by governance issues at one of the most respected companies," said Deepak Jasani, head of retail research at HDFC Securities.
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McCain later confessed to The Hill in an interview that he was taken aback by Reid's personally harsh attacks given their otherwise good relationship.
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I had the opportunity to spend a few minutes with the X1D today and I'm still taken aback at just how compact it is.
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While Muir says that she was initially taken aback by the changes her body has gone through in the past year, she's embracing it.
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Everyone is taken aback by Holly's honesty and bravery in the face of literal death, but no one is judging her for her sexuality.
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Connor: I heard Gold last year when I was having a spliff in the woods and I was taken aback completely, unfortunately, by Ameer.
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"She said she had never seen a U.S. soldier before," Captain Ellerbe said of the woman, who was taken aback by his friendly demeanor.
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Hersh was "taken aback" by the response from women fellows, who pointed out that he had heard of a crime and not reported it.
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Daniel Kennefick, astrophysicist at the University of Arkansas and author of "An Einstein Encyclopedia," said he was "taken aback" when he read the diaries.
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Still, when I told Balmes that the carbon-dioxide reading for Thanksgiving had peaked at four thousand parts per million, he was taken aback.
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" Cohen, who appeared taken aback by the remark, said he was working with his lawyers to make "edits all the way through the night.
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Many people are somewhat taken aback when they find out that really I am an idealist, and an optimist about where we are heading.
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When I told him what Richter had written, that he had explicitly objected to the film's being about a painter, Donnersmarck was taken aback.
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When 37-year-old Jack recently brought a woman back to his house after a date, she was taken aback by his spare room.
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Some American officials were taken aback by the Kurdish announcement, voicing frustration and anger to their Kurdish counterparts, according to a senior American official.
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Facebook, which HUD said controlled about 20 percent of the online advertising in the United States, appeared to be taken aback by the suit.
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The roar of the jet engines is also overwhelming, and even after all this time photographing the planes, Mr. Rothenberg is sometimes taken aback.
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People were so taken aback by her weight loss that some speculated she had anorexia, which Bartoli said bothered her because it was untrue.
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As he walked along a receiving line on the tarmac shaking hands, the pope seemed taken aback to see Father Cardenal among the dignitaries.
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But during summer recruiting showcases, some coaches were taken aback to see colleagues who were under investigation out recruiting as if nothing had happened.
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I rang the mission's doorbell and must have looked faintly taken aback when it was opened by a young man of evidently Caribbean origin.
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Iraqi officials were taken aback by the directive, which they learned about through the American news media because they had not been consulted first.
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There is significant video: And: Martin told reporters that he was taken aback by the elaborate gesture, and got emotional about the tribute: Fun!
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After they dropped it off, my sister told me that the church secretary had been taken aback by her plan's level of detail and organization.
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"I was sort of taken aback for a second because I never thought of myself as someone who would be able to do that all."
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Which is why some Angelenos were taken aback when the city allowed Musk to drill, baby, drill without so much as an environmental impact study.
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It is not unusual for nominees from the private sector to be taken aback by the harsh political climate that often greets new presidential appointees.
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When neighbor Kimberly Milligan, 20133, and her son saw three Turpin kids putting up Christmas decorations in 2015, they were taken aback by the interaction.
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With both oil inventories falling and natural gas running hot, Cramer was taken aback by the staggering moves in energy in the past few months.
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Outside the Roxy, after Pump's set, a group of young men approach the doors and are completely taken aback that his show is already finished.
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I'm taken aback—all I know about Mule is that it's going to be creepy and it's advisable not to watch on a full bladder.
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MANY Americans were taken aback when news broke in January that Peter Thiel, an internet billionaire and adviser to Donald Trump, had New Zealand citizenship.
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When Jencarlos Canela found out he was cast for the role of Jesus in Fox's Easter TV special, The Passion, he was almost taken aback.
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As he made his way to Amsterdam, Clemons says he was taken aback by the fact that he wasn't screened leaving Brussels going into Holland.
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Lauren B., taken aback and unsure how to respond, told him she was being genuine and couldn't understand why someone would say that about her.
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Zaidi has captured tribes and indigenous people from over 30 African nations, though he was nonetheless taken aback by the relationship between man and beast.
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Taken aback, the moderator Azucena Uresti twice asked him if he was speaking literally, before checking again that he really meant what he had said.
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Henderson was equally taken aback and said he had rejected the first phone call from the Swedish academy on Wednesday before picking up second time.
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"I was completely taken aback by the onrush of officers and this very SWAT-like gear coming towards me out of nowhere," Williams told CNN.
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When another neighbor and her son saw three Turpin kids putting up Christmas decorations in 2015, she said they were taken aback by the interaction.
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Considering just how violent many of these movies can be, perhaps we shouldn't be taken aback that the word "blockbuster" has its roots in wartime.
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On Wednesday, the world was taken aback after The Sun published a series of photographs showing Swift and Hiddleston canoodling at a Rhode Island beach.
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Olivier Gozlan said he was taken aback when colleagues in London encouraged him to wear a skullcap at work, something that is rare in France.
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It prefers you to feel taken aback, rather than to have you waiting for a bomb to go off that you already know is there.
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Bruce Kleinschmidt Louisville, Ky. Playing for Laughs I was taken aback by Hilton Als's review of Hannah Gadsby's new show, "Douglas" ("On Stage," July 29th).
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Jeff Blau, chief executive of Related Companies, who had been taken aback by the Mr. Cuomo's announcement in January, was excited about finally moving forward.
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Some television viewers were taken aback by an ad running on Fox News and other stations showing a stuffed bear coiffed like President Donald Trump.
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At passport control, we found ourselves in a huge hall, and I was abruptly taken aback: There were Americans all around us, lots of them!
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Kelly was so taken aback by the request that he documented it in a written contemporaneous memo, a detail since confirmed by the Washington Post.
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She recalls the students' teacher was taken aback by the complexity with which the Cry Innocent cast wanted to approach the 17th-century Puritan mindset.
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Even if it's only to get your foot in the door for an interview, then you can really take the interviewers aback with your talents.
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In 2014 at the sitzprobe for "Bullets Over Broadway," Mr. Krauthamer was taken aback by one of the female leads, an expressive and funny blonde.
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But Ms. Green was taken aback recently when asked about her salary, a topic so fraught even she couldn't come up with a good answer.
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After reading the criticism of "Our House is on Fire," I was taken aback, wondering whether the critic's interpretation and accusations may have been correct.
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Israeli commentators were taken aback by the ad, some finding the joke too on-the-nose or the subject too serious to make light of.
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He said he was taken aback when the strong-willed, spirited woman he had fallen in love with insisted on accompanying him to his tournaments.
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When a tiered black-and-gold table chest that Mr. Buatta had bought at Brooke Astor's estate sale went for $52,500, he was taken aback.
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They added that Erdogan has been taken aback by what Turkey views as Russian President Vladimir Putin's uncompromising stance in the field and in discussions.
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" Mildly taken aback, Ms. Guadagno stammered a moment, before saying that she wanted to focus on the future and that "campaigns are about looking forward.
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Mr. Nasser was angry and taken aback by the news, said two people who were in the room and three others briefed on it later.
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And yet, when I sprayed it in my bedroom, I was taken aback by how nice it smelled — kind of woodsy and citrusy and minty.
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Ernst had imagined that the Olympics would mark a bright new era for Russia, and he was taken aback by the abrupt change in tone.
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Kelly was reportedly taken aback by Trump's treatment of Tillerson, and aides worried that he would push the issue with the president, the Journal reported.
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He had commissioned the Neanderthals from Dutch artists known as Kennis & Kennis, and he was initially taken aback by the woman's posture in their sketches.
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"You can still be taken aback by some of the problems we still have," said Timothy Thurman, the superintendent of the local public school system.
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I admit I was a bit taken aback by Shermer's cavalier dismissal of one of the most long-lasting quests for immortality of them all.
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Perhaps that's why we were taken aback by some of the wines in the tasting, in which the oak was overbearing and out of balance.
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Taken aback at their interaction, Fogelman said they headed into Springsteen, where Hanan spent the duration of the Broadway production wondering when he should text Martin.
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"The market was a little taken aback by Trump's comments recently about the meeting," said Andre Bakhos, managing director at Janlyn Capital in Bernardsville, New Jersey.
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I can understand why maybe a president who had a really good relationship with mainstream media would feel taken aback by a hard question like that.
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The turbulent nomination process wore on Puzder, too, with aides close to the nominee telling CNN that he was taken aback by the harshness of politics.
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The storyline is informed by Eve's increasing interest in pornography—a scold would call it addiction—and we're obviously meant to be taken aback by this.
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With both oil inventories falling and natural gas running hot, Jim Cramer was taken aback by the staggering moves in energy in the past few months.
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Keepers at Adelaide Zoo in Australia have been taken aback by the news that its Sumatran orangutan, Karta, has fallen pregnant despite being on birth control.
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So much so that viewers seemed taken aback by their early love for certain dynamics and character twists, namely the reveal of Rip Hunter's tragic backstory.
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"Today my new Team Corn collection dropped and I am so taken aback by how many people have supported!" the 25-year-old Miami native wrote.
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Colby was taken aback, I had chills and we all were misty by the end of it … I will never forget the feeling of that moment.
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When Elizabeth Dennis spoke to her 11-year-old daughter, Mariana, in Spanish in front of her friends, she was taken aback by her daughter's response.
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That's why I was so taken aback during the Younger season 4 premiere, "Post Truth," when a sex "joke" took a strange turn out of nowhere.
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Taken aback, some Senate Democrats expressed remorse, and some, Gillibrand included, said perhaps Franken should have been allowed to make his case to the ethics committee.
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After a month or two of building his Handshake profile, he was taken aback: Companies were starting to contact him, instead of the other way around.
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As Charles Moore relates in Herself Alone, the third and final volume of his authorized biography of Thatcher, Butler was taken aback by what he heard.
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Needless to say, we were pretty taken aback when the star showed up with not just one, but two hair changes at the same damn time.
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Clinton seems to have been taken aback by the size of Mr. Trump's reported loss and his ability to pay no federal tax for so long.
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Last month, when I returned to Madeleine L'Engle's novel "A Wrinkle in Time," more than 35 years after I first read it, I was taken aback.
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"I was really taken aback when I moved to London—the lack of decent venues for a city of its size was quite striking," he says.
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Ms. Wanamaker's Meg looks taken aback early on by Petey's use of the adjective "succulent" — one that is clearly more suggestive than she is used to.
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When his parents announced that the family would be moving to Mecklenburg County, Virginia to help out on his grandparents' farm, he was understandably taken aback.
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Mary Williams Walsh, NYT: Reached late on Tuesday, investors who hold Puerto Rico's debt and their advisers said they were taken aback and unwilling to comment.
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Gorsuch appeared taken aback by the crowd of photographers rapid-fire snapping shots of him as he sat at the witness table ahead of the hearing.
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But Mr. Gates seemed somewhat taken aback after visiting a cattle station in central Queensland, where he had an up-close experience with cutting-edge genomics.
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When police union leaders responded with fury, Mr. Bloomberg seemed taken aback, unwilling to concede that even a technically accurate statement may have been politically unwise.
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He seemed taken aback by the suggestion that he collaborate with a brand — though he does hope the show has an effect on how we dress.
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He was taken aback by the request, aides say, as was George W. Bush, another former rival, who received a similar call from McCain this spring.
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While voters are taken aback by the roughness with which Trump took on the issue, there is no question that a solid majority support his position.
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The Washington Post reported that American prisoners of war were "taken aback" by the nudity in a smuggled Playboy found on their flight home in 1973.
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Modern audiences are justifiably mesmerized and taken aback by the many weirdnesses in the trailers for Hooper's film adaptation of Cats: The cats are cat-sized!
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Women who had access to salary records were taken aback to learn that some female staff members made thousands of dollars less than their male counterparts.
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"I was a little taken aback by the tone," said Mike Turner, a Republican congressman from Ohio and a member of the House Armed Services Committee.
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Jordin Sparks is completely taken aback by the rape allegations against Nelly, and so's the guy next to her at baggage claim ... maybe even more so.
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At a Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party conference in Essen on Monday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel was taken aback by an unfamiliar device positioned next to her.
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But before she quit, her opponent, Erick Allen, a talent management consultant, said he was taken aback that someone who did not bother campaigning won the primary.
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"We were taken aback by this assertion, which came without any supporting data or methodology," Google's vice president of people operations Eileen Naughton responded at the time.
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Ten years ago, American composer Suzanne Ciani met with a Hollywood talent agent about potential movie scoring opportunities, but was taken aback by the man's sexist advances.
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Asked if school officials had received or observed any red flags of possible abuse at the home, Myers said school officials were "taken aback" by the incident.
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Guests were taken aback: "Try sleeping with that over your head," a visiting pharmaceuticals executive told The Los Angeles Times after the hotel was sold in 1984.
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Maybe it is just the media training talking, but neither of them seemed taken aback by the question of kids during their engagement interview back in November.
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The case has raised dismay, and some laughter, among Norwegians taken aback by Breivik's complaints of cold coffee and microwaved meals he said were "worse than waterboarding".
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Both breathtaking and haunting, show-goers were taken aback by models whose faces were covered with black velvet, huge tulle skirts protruding from under black satin coats.
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While many people were taken aback by Kanye West saying he "would smash" all four of his sisters-in-law, none of the KarJenners seemed to mind.
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"Their conversations are ongoing as we speak, so we look forward to hopefully them coming aback after this 4th of July recess and getting the work done."
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According to British press reports, KHC's executives were taken aback by the ferocity of CEO Paul Polman's rebuff, along with its cold reception from the British government.
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Wired's Nitasha Tiku: "Even after covering the trial for weeks, I learned from & was taken aback by (Pao) telling her story in her own words," Tiku wrote.
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Instead, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told him he was making a big mistake — and Trump seemed "taken aback," according to a person familiar with the call.
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"RNC donors that know Charles Koch are taken aback that they RNC would question his integrity or that of the network," said one adviser to Republican donors.
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We've had some moments where understandably they were a little taken aback by that, so we have to try to accompany them in these kinds of situations.
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But she was taken aback, and shaken, by a vicious retaliatory campaign of harassment and insults against her and her work by those same pro-Russian voices.
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Trump, a Republican, has made extensive use of presidential directives that bypass Congress and has appeared to be taken aback by legal challenges to his travel order.
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Holland was clearly taken aback and wasn't exactly sure what to say half the time, but he seemed to roll with the punches like an interview veteran.
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But he was taken aback during the finale when Mr. Trump suggested that he share his prize with the rival he had just defeated, a white woman.
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Add pornography consumption, a topic that&aposs taboo in our society, into the mix, and I can understand why you&aposre so taken aback by your discovery.
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I was also taken aback by the cost of WiFi, the fact that bottled water was extra, and by the daily gratuity fee added to my bill.
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Comey was also "taken aback" by Trump's request for a loyalty pledge at a dinner at the White House in late January, CNN's Jake Tapper has reported.
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During surgery to remove the suspected tumor, the lead neurosurgeon, Charles Cobbs from Seattle's Swedish Medical Center, was taken aback by the extent of the brain damage.
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Some say they respect who he is and what he stands for while others are completely taken aback by the rumors of his potential run for presidency.
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As soon as you take your first bite, you will be taken aback by the sour flavor of the bread, tender crumb, and wonderfully jagged, charred crust.
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I was taken aback when a group of white men brushed past me as if I were asking for money, not the location of a popular bar.
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He speaks to Hield every day, and seemed somewhat taken aback I would even ask about the frequency of their communications, as if the answer was obvious.
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Taken aback, Rabbi Sabath said she tried to engage Mr. Steinhardt in a discussion about the centuries-old practice of concubinage, which he said should be reinstituted.
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The existence of the list has become known among officials in the Trump administration, some of whom were taken aback by what they regard as its presumptuousness.
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The EU was taken aback by the scale of Erdogan's post-coup crackdown on critics and has effectively frozen Turkey's long-stalled bid to join the bloc.
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I was taken aback, then, when my beard began to grow and I caught a glimpse of a familiar, warm masculine person in the mirror one day.
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Aides say that in private, Ms. Feinstein has been taken aback by the intensity and repetition of the criticism, but expressed confidence she handled the situation correctly.
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When Ms. Gold, the author of "Food: The Good Girl's Drug," told him that it would be a casualty of her getting healthy, he was taken aback.
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Chinese officials have been taken aback by the vehemence of Mr. Trump's language against them, and Mr. Xi's response suggested he was eager to lower the temperature.
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The last time this happened to me, the TSA agent recognized it as discriminatory and was taken aback that she needed to participate in this grotesque process.
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Taken aback by the protest that greeted the regulations, a top official said the government planned to pre-empt the legal challenge by revising the new rules.
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But they did not hear back about any potential changes to the bill, and when it was unveiled, they were taken aback because their concerns weren't addressed.
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She told investigators she was taken aback by the mention of investigations of the Bidens and Burisma, a Ukrainian energy firm that Mr. Biden's son worked for.
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But she was still taken aback at the vicious messages she received, including emails and tweets telling her that she should have died in the helicopter crash.
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I had not seen it before and was taken aback, as much by the egotism of the gesture as by its tacit acknowledgment of the death threat.
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" Curator in charge of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art "When I saw the show, I was so taken aback at what prompted this.
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A former State Department official close to Yovanovitch said the former ambassador is "doing OK but is quite taken aback, as is everybody" over the alleged conspiracy.
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That's why today, when she released the new music video for her song "Xanny," fans were taken aback by how different Eilish looked in the opening frames.
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"I was quite taken aback," Ms. Wilson-Raybould recalled, and said that she then asked Mr. Trudeau if he was trying to interfere with a criminal case.
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The Mexican authorities had long expected the move, but were taken aback when they were told early on Thursday that the plan would take effect on Friday.
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At their last dinner together, about a year ago, Ms. Foley was taken aback when Mr. McCarthy met her dressed in a polo shirt and khaki pants.
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Ask a five year old about his or her career aspirations and chances are you'll be taken aback by the ambitious responses: astronaut, pro football star, bajillionaire, president.
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And even though Hannah had said earlier that she was looking for a man who would make bold moves, she looked a little taken aback by his interruption.
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Jeffrey C. Stewart's comprehensive biography of Locke is a surprisingly gripping read — I'll be honest, I was taken aback by its heft when I first picked it up.
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Because of this, and being somewhat taken aback at how hard having a second child was, she cut back from full-time to working three days a week.
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"I was a little shocked and taken aback that you were here, but I must say, in the last 48 hours, you are a good person," she said.
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The cast of Stranger Things begins filming its third season on Monday and we're a bit taken aback by what could be a whole new look for Eleven.
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke Friday with a top official from South Korea, whose leaders had appeared to be taken aback when Trump withdrew from the summit.
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I was initially taken aback when Betsy made her offer, but I quickly realized that it was difficult to communicate through the platform in a non-transactional way.
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Charlie Dent, a moderate from Pennsylvania who voted against the House health care bill, said that many members were "taken aback" when they read what the President said.
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He was very taken aback when he found out the amount — he was really upset at first because he had never had any serious debt for any amount.
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Spicer's reaction was not caught on video, but a publicist for the former White House aide told The Associated Press he was "taken aback" by the "outrageous" accusation.
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Indeed, her real-life therapist was later taken aback to discover the artist had given up certain revelations to the camera that she hadn't brought to their sessions.
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During Friday's episode, PEOPLE's recently crowned Sexiest Man Alive was (literally) taken aback by wife Chrissy Teigen, who jumped out while he was sitting in the interview chair.
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Ms. Wills, a retired school bus driver living on disability, said she was taken aback when the police arrested Ms. Marshall and then was frustrated by what followed.
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Lartey-Williams was responsible for organizing the logistics, but still found herself taken aback by the opulence and romanticism of the scene playing out in front of her.
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Buck appeared to be taken aback, and asked the question again but added whether Mueller believed a president could be charged with obstruction of justice after leaving office.
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Our parting was amicable, and Autumn's followup outreach to me and our ensuing message exchange were all friendly, so I was taken aback to learn about her posts.
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Republicans have been taken aback by the enthusiasm on the Democratic side, one that shows up in campaign finance reports made in the final weeks of the race.
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But officials were also taken aback by a sudden increase in asylum applicants, from 423 in 2010 to 5,711 last year, mostly from Pakistan, Egypt, Syria and China.
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Securities and Exchange Commission officials were understandably taken aback on Thursday morning when Tesla's board — and its chairman, Elon Musk — abruptly pulled out of a carefully crafted settlement.
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" Last weekend, UConn was taken aback when Duquesne guard Deva'Nyar Workman said that UConn was not "superhuman" and that she would not "get caught up in their greatness.
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But even his most ardent supporters might be taken aback to hear that the president seems to have forgotten his "America First" pledge in designing his tax plan.
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To watch him over and over is to be constantly taken aback by how much he brings with a physical and skill toolkit that occasionally can seem limited.
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Buck appeared to be taken aback, and asked the question again, but adding whether Mueller believed a president could be charged with obstruction of justice after leaving office.
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Taken aback by the sudden influx of asylum seekers and a public outcry over their arrival, the central government withdrew the no-visa benefit for Yemenis in June.
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Even Jackson, who is baseball's all-time strikeout leader and who was present at Monday's workout, was taken aback when he was told how many strikeouts Judge had.
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Mr. Buttigieg described the gratitude and optimism he often encountered when he was traveling the country, and acknowledged it was so powerful it took him aback at first.
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Ms. Lo was also taken aback by her treatment at Intesa Sanpaolo, a bank where she tried to open an account so her parents could wire her money.
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Taken aback, the government of Mr. Moon, himself a son of wartime refugees from North Korea, has vowed to revise the laws to tighten screening of refugee applicants.
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Some administration officials were taken aback by his demands, but they underscore the clout Mr. Kobach hopes to have in a job that would not require Senate confirmation.
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When Mr. Zwane was appointed Mr. Zuma's mining minister in 2015 — one of the most important positions in the government — other politicians and industry officials were taken aback.
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What better time for a story about a prominent man taken totally aback when he discovers that the rules about what he can get away with have changed?
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American fans of "Miss Fisher's" may be taken aback by the next Cox and Eagger series, "Newton's Law," whose eight-episode first season begins streaming Monday on AcornTV.
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Axios published an article last night about a meeting President Trump had with officials at the Department of Homeland Security who were taken aback by the president's idea.
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AOC was taken aback when a Trump supporter showed up at her town hall meeting, trolling the congresswoman by suggesting the solution to climate change was eating babies.
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"I was taken aback by how willing I was to accept her," and while waiting with her for a cab, he kissed her on top of her head.
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"When I look at sipping a cup of tea, I'm a little taken aback and kind of—you have to laugh about it to see all the criticism."
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Taken aback by the language, Dr. Hiers reached out to the man, urging him to consider different ways of looking at the world, according to the defense motion.
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Western tourists visiting Thailand in the wake of King Bhumibol Adulyadej's death this Thursday seem to be a bit taken aback by the intensity of the country's mourning.
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Mr. Kushner, who friends say was taken aback by the decision, has avoided questions about how he will fulfill his once-sweeping White House duties without that privilege.
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Several justices seemed taken aback by Mr. Parker's unyielding position that the government may revoke the citizenship of Americans who made even trivial misstatements in their naturalization proceedings.
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Pete Davidson took many people aback on 'SNL' by seemingly announcing he was going to rehab for the holidays -- and if he's serious ... Alonzo Bodden has some advice.
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Many were taken aback by the agency's decision, according to the Times article, as the EPA helps fund the organization hosting the event: the Narragansett Bay Estuary Program.
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And when I look at sipping a cup of tea, I'm a little taken aback … You have to laugh about it, to see all the criticism' #FifaWWC pic.twitter.
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Some club members were discombobulated, but young, reform-minded McGovern campaign workers were even more taken aback when they gravitated to Mr. McManus's old-school clubhouse to volunteer.
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Daniel Garodnick, a former city councilman who played a key role in the city's rezoning of East Midtown for taller towers, was taken aback by Mr. Macklowe's plan.
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Initially, I was taken aback by the inclusion of works by Harlem Renaissance poets, like James Baldwin and Audre Lorde, whose contributions are foundational to intersectional social theory.
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The friend in the Homicide Division was taken aback by this request and passed the information up to his superiors, who promptly demanded he turn over the knife.
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His parents love basketball even as they sound taken aback by the great surge of talent and the expectations that follow like a dog nipping at their heels.
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"I was very taken aback and very uncomfortable about looking at an image that I did not recognize as myself," she told Winfrey, referring to the recent AdWeek cover.
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Speaking with Oprah Winfrey, Obama said she was taken aback when the insulting description of her first took hold while her husband was running for president eight years ago.
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We were taken aback last night by Mashable's story and frankly surprised that Mashable didn't wait for our response, particularly as the video had not even been publicly released.
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Raven later passed on this information to Rachel, who was taken aback and decided to bring it up with Eric during the evening portion of the date that night.
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At the end of the trip, an aide who had just joined the team was taken aback to see Warren cleaning the trash out of her own rental car.
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" And though Mayer was a little taken aback by David's questions, he had no problem discussing how often he's asked to tell someone if their "body is a wonderland.
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The Washington Post's Geoffrey A. Fowler was so taken aback by the amount of audio material that Amazon collected that he actually made a song out of his clips.
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I remember people being taken aback at the three to three-and-a-half hour runtimes for each film; now, binge watching a ten-hour television show feels commonplace.
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" Cramer Remix: The real issue with Apple Cramer: How deep the Apple pain goesCramer: Bullish pattern formed in material charts Wyndham Worldwide: "We were taken aback by that quarter.
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Some people were taken aback by this approach, but for many of us, it wasn't a far stretch from Buhloone Mindstate… they even got 2 Chainz on this jawn.
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Bankers have been taken aback by the aggressive nature of corporate funding over the last fortnight in particular, a period that ordinarily would have been subdued by earnings blackouts.
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Noting that Honolulu isn't all that cheap a place to live itself, Garcia has been less taken aback by the cost of living than she feared she might be.
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When staff members unhesitatingly complied, he was apparently taken aback and, rather than leave, spent the rest of the evening at the establishment buying ice cream for all comers.
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Missouri Democrat Brian Wahby sounds taken aback by even the suggestion that DNC members went with Perez because they disapproved of Ellison's record on either American Jews or Israel.
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Ikaika Hall said that he was "taken aback" by the news and said that it was disappointing that he was not going to be able to hear Comey speak.
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Bognanno spent time on set during filming and said she was taken aback by how unnervingly accurate the faux-backstage was, with its grim concrete walls and copious booze.
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"I was taken aback by the sight of young people, girls and boys, sitting together on the lawn," he told a class at the Istanbul Technical University in 2013.
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Mr. Hedges, who recalled the Galleria event as a sort of festive wake for his friend on the mezzanine, was taken aback by Honey Soundsystem's interest in the archives.
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While I was first taken aback by the shop's musty smell, I quickly realized that many racks were filled with brand new clothing that still had tags on them.
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When Sun-Maid brought in Harry Overly as a new chief executive to revamp the century-old company, he was taken aback by the level of animosity he encountered.
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In an email on Friday, Mr. Holland said he had been "taken aback" by the reaction to his post, and that he had been the subject of "bullying" online.
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The elder Mr. Cambern said he was "taken aback" when his son told him a few weeks later that he wanted to grow marijuana for the California medical market.
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I was, however, taken aback when the first person I met in the emergency ward had a clipboard and was asking me how I would pay for all this.
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"The mission was taken aback by the severity and urgency of the humanitarian crisis," said Margot van der Velden, the director of emergencies for the U.N. World Food Program.
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Whether or not "we all" fantasize disaster, with Hurricane Sandy still fresh in my memory, I was taken aback by these highly aestheticized depictions of my city's watery demise.
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Ms. Collins also said she was taken aback when she realized Mr. Farenthold was referring to a duel in which Burr, then vice president, killed Alexander Hamilton in 1804.
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Having seen Jamaica's Franklyn D. Resort described in online forums as affordable, I was initially taken aback by the $340-a-night price tag for the least expensive room.
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President Donald Trump&aposs request to block nearly $400 million in military aid from Ukraine reportedly drove deep divisions between administration officials who were taken aback by the move.
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When I received a routine updates from Bush's press shop that merely pointed out Trump's remarks in an "in case you missed it" type of way, I was taken aback.
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She twirls, grins and gyrates until the chairman breaks into applause, taken aback by the virtuosity of her theatrics: "This is the most amusing farce of the year!" he exclaims.
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Aside from celebrating with her incredibly proud teammates and coaches, the college athlete also shared the big news with her mom Amy via FaceTime — and she was visibly taken aback.
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The climate science and policy community was taken aback when President Donald Trump nominated Rex Tillerson, then the head of ExxonMobil, to take over the State Department in January 2017.
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At first, Rob seemed a bit taken aback that his future child wouldn't be a boy, but he wound up getting emotional at the thought of having a little girl.
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Both are taken aback to see events spiraling toward the brink of Armageddon, with the birth of the Antichrist and forces above and below seemingly bent on the planet's destruction.
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Sey told BuzzFeed News he initially shared it with friends on social media to be "funny," but he was taken aback by how much attention his gender-swapped selfie received.
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RELATED: Chilcot: What Tony Blair and Bush left behind in Iraq Asked Tuesday night on Fox News about the comments, House Speaker Paul Ryan appeared taken aback by Trump's words.
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As Trump seemed taken aback in recent days by Cruz's aggressive efforts to peel away delegates in places like Louisiana, GOP strategists said such maneuvering should come as no surprise.
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Last year at CES, I was taken aback by Bellus3D, a company with an uncannily accurate 3D face scanner that took incredibly unnerving selfies, but it was just a prototype.
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"I was taken aback because we didn't know each other very well yet, and even people with whom I had been friends for a long time hadn't offered," Duran wrote.
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I walked in earlier with a group of CNN staffers and I think it is fair to say we were all taken aback at how gorgeous the venue truly is.
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It seemed as though Daniel Cormier, who defends his title against 'Bones' on April 23rd at UFC 197, was taken aback by how well the controversial light-heavyweight was received.
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McKay said the housemates were "taken aback by the seemingly blasé attitude" of the young woman and reported her to the Police Service of Northern Ireland about a week later.
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Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth's decision to split after less than a year of marriage may have caught fans off guard, but those close to the couple weren't taken aback.
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While many were taken aback by Jenner's beauty and commended her for the change-up, others couldn't help but notice how closely the reality star resembled her mother Kris Jenner.
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On Friday, CNN's Jake Tapper reported that Comey was "taken aback" by Trump's request for a personal assurance or pledge of loyalty at a dinner shortly after he took office.
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And though she has yet to reach her 30th birthday, she says she has been taken aback by what she sees in these even younger Afghans with whom she works.
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The city of Paris may have been equally taken aback when HomeAway employees, upon receiving Sharples' blessing to give it a shot, broached the proposal with the French capital's authorities.
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U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric cast doubt last month on the credibility of the Congolese investigation, saying the world body was "taken aback at the rapidity at which it was done".
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And so he maps out what he's going to do," she said, adding that she was more intrigued than taken aback because "I'm probably a little bit like that myself.
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Two senior Republican aides told CNN that Ayers' had "pissed a lot of people off," and that lawmakers were taken aback since Ayers was so new to the White House.
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The woman was reportedly taken aback when told that the videos about Israel have been used to push conspiracy theories about the sheriff in the wake of the Parkland shooting.
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But as soon as entered the park I was taken aback by the breadth of imagination and astonishing attention to detail that had gone into the creation of this attraction.
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When I first signed up for Personal Capital in October 2012, I was taken aback by the total fees I was paying across all of my mutual funds and ETFs.
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Many Shiites have been taken aback by Turkey's stance, looking through the lens of history to the Ottoman times when Turkey elevated a Sunni elite to govern the Shiite majority.
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He and the buyer emailed each other photos of their collections, as collectors often do, and Wagner was taken aback when the man sent 27 pictures of his robust trove.
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" But, like many others, after being taken aback by Donald Trump winning the White House last November, I decided to take a step back and reevaluate the whole "Reagan question.
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DANIEL MCCARTHY NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. To the Editor: I'm not a baseball fan, but David Bentley Hart's venomous attack on the New York Yankees organization and fans took me aback.
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I've often wondered how taken aback Corelli, Bach, Schubert, Wagner, Stravinsky and other composers would be by the alien visions he married to their scores in mysterious but uplifting harmony.
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Still, people who do not watch Congress regularly can be taken aback by just how advanced in age — and sometimes evidently slowed — people at the pinnacle of power can be.
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When I gave that speech, it was directed to a local audience, so I was taken aback by the fact that it struck such an incredible chord across the country.
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Some Democratic strategists said they have been taken aback recently by how successful Mr. Trump and Republicans have been at setting the terms of the debate around liberal policy ideas.
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Common Sense Securities and Exchange Commission officials were understandably taken aback on Thursday morning when Tesla's board — and its chairman, Elon Musk — abruptly pulled out of a carefully crafted settlement.
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When she first arrived in Korea, she was taken aback to see that her players did not know how to hop over the boards from the bench onto the ice.
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But we are not, usually, taken aback when we learn that someone got a job interview through a college roommate or an alumni connection, even though that is also unmeritocratic.
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When the doctor walked in, I was taken aback to see that her right arm ended just below the elbow, and several fingers on her left hand were partial fingers.
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But in the end, they were still taken aback when Trump spoke off the cuff at their news conference on the sensitive issues of settlements and a future Palestinian state.
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More roles are likely on the horizon for a young star like Centineo, who has experienced such a rapid surge in popularity that it can sometimes leave him taken aback.
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"I was quite taken aback by the sheer size of it," Kia Miller of Coombe Girls' School said of the Rose's auditorium, amid the post-show euphoria of the lobby.
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He said he was taken aback at testimony by Fiona Hill, Trump's former top Russia aide, revealing that she and then-national security adviser John Bolton had criticized his involvement.
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Tran said that the decision would be between a woman and her doctor, but, evidently taken aback by the question, eventually allowed that it would be permitted under her bill.
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"I was taken aback by realizing through this that we are no longer a utility," one member of the network's research team answered when Zucker asked for her take-away.
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And I was taken aback to hear he was going to assign Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man — not because it's mostly set in New York but because Ralph Ellison was black.
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The institutionalized thing that Weinstein had took me aback, and I do wonder if the fact that it's so extreme with him, like, decades of this behavior ... SB: Of course.
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Reynolds was taken aback by Trump's request, but did secure some additional aerial photographs and forwarded them to the White House through normal channels in the Interior Department, the sources said.
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So when it beat the likes of Black Panther, BlacKkKlansman and If Beale Street Could Talk at the Golden Globes last week, we were quite taken aback, to say the least.
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I've not seriously played the Codemasters F1 series for a couple years, so I was taken aback by just how much systems management I had to do during every single race.
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Design lovers were initially taken aback by the non-color color choice, but, as seems to be the case nearly every year, the backlash quickly gave way to pronouncements of support.
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But other policymakers, taken aback by the euro move, felt that it was too early to make any commitment at Thursday's meeting and want to reassess the whole situation in March.
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Kim is taken aback but explains herself by saying that they all support Khloé in the divorce, and they don't want to say anything that might make her change her mind.
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The announcement also hurt Trump's relationship with Ben Carson, a presidential rival turned trusted surrogate, who had not been told that Lewandowski would be running the search and was taken aback.
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"I am quite taken aback by the foundation making a political contribution to the Florida AG who was just about to investigate Trump University and then ending the investigation," Clinton said.
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I had one last surprise for him, and I have to be honest walking into that concert hall — even I was taken aback by how big and explosive that audience was!
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Newble told ABC News that Morley had already popped the question with a Blow Pop ring at the movies, which is why she was taken aback by his amusement park stunt.
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Well, technically, that last one is a paraphrase — I was lost and in a hurry, and I was so taken aback I didn't even fully register what that man was saying.
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When Sushil Wadhwani left a hedge fund to join the Bank of England's monetary policy committee (MPC) in 1999, he was taken aback by the way the bank forecast currency movements.
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"I'm kind of taken aback by what's happened in the last three months," said Richard Johnson, an analyst at Greenwich Associates who owns digital currencies and considers himself a bitcoin bull.
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"When people found out that a woman would be leading a Corps of almost 2,400 people, they were taken aback, because it wasn't the image they were used to," Sorio said.
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It's not uncommon for train stations in Tokyo to be filled with busy commuters, but even Japanese users on social media were taken aback by the constant stream of human traffic.
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LeAnn goes to Texas to pressure Squire himself to call and confront Conway; Conway is taken aback and acts cagey, but manages to end the call without any bombshells being revealed.
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Having visited branches of the Caribbean restaurant chain in nearby Manchester and Preston, I'm not surprised by its popularity, but taken aback by the demographic—the patrons here are all white.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Serena Williams was completely taken aback by her pregnancy, taking six home tests before believing she was expecting her first child, the tennis superstar told Vanity Fair magazine.
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Attica Locke, a mystery novelist and a writer for the television show "Empire," said she was taken aback at first when she picked up the book and saw the author photo.
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When she burst upon the scene as a fresh-faced 2628-year old in 28500, singing the Evil Gal Blues, the country was taken aback by her voice and unshakeable confidence.
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The analysis comes after Trump reportedly was taken aback during a White House meeting earlier this year upon learning of the size — 35,000 troops — of the U.S. deployment in the country.
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"We are quite taken aback by this," Tim Osborne, a British tax lawyer and the director of GML, a company that controlled a majority of Yukos shares, said in an interview.
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He's said that he decided to start Lambda School under the ISA model after being "taken aback" when speaking with someone who couldn't afford the $10,000 to attend a coding bootcamp.
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He was taken aback watching elderly voters at his polling station off Leninsky Prospekt kissing Mr. Putin's pictures on the official poster listing all eight candidate and crossing themselves, he said.
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"The stability of this organization, from top to bottom, has honestly taken me aback a little bit," said Boone, who played for the Yankees for less than three months, in 2003.
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Melvin and his staff were taken aback the first time Alderson showed up in the visitors' clubhouse in Baltimore early this season — they wondered if someone was on the hot seat.
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Historians continue to debate how effective Nixon's maneuver was; the Soviet Union was taken aback, but then again the American role in the war lasted three and a half more years.
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Panetta was no stranger to Code Pink protesters interrupting his testimony with anti-war chants on Capitol Hill, but he appeared taken aback by the disruptions at the Democratic convention Wednesday.
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"I was kind of taken aback at how something as minor as a movie has been affecting me," said Ruth Wilner, 45, who saw the film with her husband in Sacramento.
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Immigration advocates were taken aback by the proclamation, noting there are already several steps that applicants for a green card must take to qualify, including passing background checks and health examinations.
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The governing party, Bharatiya Janata Party, was initially taken aback by the protests, but has recently mobilized its supporters in its own large rallies to express support for the citizenship law.
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Trump officials seem taken aback by the uniformly negative consequences of the Suleimani killing: The Iranian regime is empowered, Iraq has turned hostile and nobody has stepped up in our support.
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Tomas Vedestig, 42, a left-leaning municipal councilman in Overtornea, said that when Mr. Muskos made his pitch, his colleagues were so taken aback that they thought they had misheard him.
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Cory Booker said Friday he was "taken aback" by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg calling him "well-spoken," and said Bloomberg played into a tired trope about African Americans.
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The report described prosecutors as being "somewhat taken aback" that the FBI would broach the issue During the episode, Mills and her lawyer reportedly left the room and returned shortly afterwards.
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"We've been slightly taken aback by the region – the fact that they're going to the U.S. – and also just the sheer scale of what it is they're tackling," he told Reuters.
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Gates further said that he and Clinton were both taken aback because the president received the credit for "every good thing that happened" instead of those who had "done the work."
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Tonight, though, the fog obscures the tower and catches the lights, and just for a moment I am taken aback because, through the window, it looks like the church is burning.
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Souki's move looked to be in keeping with LNG importers pushing for lower prices and better terms, yet even some of the most aggressive buyers seemed taken aback by the flat rate.
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The couple's celebrity friends were also taken aback at how similar the father-son duo looked, with several stars commenting on Teigen's post, first captured by the Instagram account Comments by Celebs.
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During an interview with Business Insider, Leonardo Nam, who plays Felix Lutz on the existentialist robot drama, said that he was taken aback but just how much nudity surrounded him during filming.
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"Especially once we sat down and looked at the blood pressure control rates and we were comparing the intervention group and the control group, I was sort of taken aback," she said.
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I was taken aback by how weird and offbeat and fun [the show] is, and the character falls right in line with how I like to play to my own comedic timing.
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Peter Jankowski, the president of Wolf Entertainment and a longtime colleague of Mr. Wolf, said that they were taken aback when NBC canceled "Law and Order" after its 20th season, in 2010.
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Duncan also composed a letter to Spurs fans that was posted on the team's website and said he had been taken aback by all of the fawning over the last three days.
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" So I was taken aback when he approached me on the street after a punch-ball game and said, "Hey, 5E, you want to catch grounders, you got to bend your knees.
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Though I could tell the products would be tiny by watching Hill's YouTube video about the collection, I was still taken aback by their size when I received them in the mail.
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"I was totally taken aback," Larry Devlin, a former C.I.A. officer, recalled in The New York Times in 22006 about being handed the toxic toothpaste in 211 to carry out the assassination.
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Rodríguez has sought to retain some distance from what he has called "a family conflict," but even he says he has been taken aback by the media storm around every new development.
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Even the French minister for equality between men and women, Marlène Schiappa, seemed taken aback by the teachers' declaration, though she said it was a worthy topic of discussion by language experts.
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But I will say I was a little taken aback at first — and this might be my own engrained literary snobbery — I did occasionally feel the necessity of there being marketing language.
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"I was kind of taken aback by people who felt it was their right to be vicious about me being inside this caged environment, treating me like a zoo animal," RAE said.
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Opening up about his character's fate, Prentice told Entertainment Weekly that while he "had an inkling that it was going to happen," he was initially "taken aback" when he learned the news.
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"Attorneys ... were taken aback at the concept of women being against a list of men, women, and children who, per the media, law enforcement, and public warnings, would harm them," Henry says.
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Taken aback by this new revelation, I asked my mother if she remembered certain details about that day similar to the ones Ford has been criticized by Kavanaugh supporters for not recalling.
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I really liked how straightforward the menu was, the service is warm, and I was taken aback by how just how good the food was, as the menu doesn't give much away.
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Even Mr. Trump was said to be taken aback by their attempts to remove things Republicans have long promised to keep, like health insurance benefits for children up to 26 years old.
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So when Trump reportedly began that meeting by asking Putin point blank whether the Russian government had meddled in the election, Tillerson was taken aback, according to a New York Times report.
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"Kislyak reportedly was taken aback by the suggestion of allowing an American to use Russian communications gear at its embassy or consulate," the Post's Ellen Nakashima, Adam Entous, and Greg Miller write.
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Liberal women, as long as we&aposre being frank here, are not used to that because they have rolls of fat on their neck, really taken aback by my beautiful swan-like neck.
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What a 9/11 first responder whispered to Jon Stewart before he choked up "Crossfire" hosts Paul Begala and Tucker Carlson were clearly taken aback by the message that Stewart came to deliver.
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When Francois demonstrated Cycloramic on a "Shark Tank" episode that aired in February 23.5, the investors — including billionaire Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban — were taken aback when they saw the app in action.
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First of all, I was wowed by the grid design, which constrained Ms. Guizzo into finding six 15-letter entries that interlocked, as well as the two 10s, CANNERY ROW and TAKEN ABACK.
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"I think he told me he was almost 30 years in the business, and he was taken aback a little bit by there's so much waste here and there's no rodents," Ryan said.
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That's why we were a little taken aback at last night's Teen Choice Awards when we spotted Lucy Hale and Olivia Holt sporting new jewelry that crossed from their helixes through their lobes.
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Though Moscow saw the Helsinki summit n the two leaders held last week as a success, the fiercely negative reaction by some U.S. politicians to Trump's performance has taken some in Russia aback.
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But on a more serious note, she said she has been taken aback by Trump's rhetoric about immigrants and will support Clinton because she feels the Democratic nominee is more capable than Trump.
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It's one reason I was taken aback by this tweet about the conference, from a doctor who specializes in caring for patients who are overweight: Obesity Week 29 Keynote Speakers - genetics and CICO.
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The Wisconsin and Hawaii-based Kutcher revealed that she was "taken aback" after receiving a DM from someone saying they "couldn't believe [she] managed to land a guy as good looking" as Drew.
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I was linked to Revel Systems CTO Chris Ciabarra's recent TechCrunch piece "IoT's killer app is home security" by a friend and found myself a bit taken aback by what I was reading.
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They're usually taken aback by my simple response: my Kindle Paperwhite, a device that reliably performs one task really well and one that I've treasured since receiving it as a gift in 2013.
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I'm always a bit taken aback when people say, 'I don't know if I could adopt or be a stepmother because I don't know if I could love a child that isn't mine.
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A source briefed on the House GOP whip meeting — which Moore attended as a guest of Majority Whip Steve Scalise — said several lawmakers told him they were taken aback by the economist's comments.
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When schools closed, principals were fired, and teaching staffs were replaced, the full breadth of the changes that Booker and his allies planned became clear — and many in the community were taken aback.
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It seems showgowers were also taken aback by the unconventional footwear on display — not only by their immediate reactions on social media, but by the unfiltered, off-the-cuff expressions on their faces.
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"I perhaps could see it coming from Bill, but I was taken aback hearing it from Chelsea," said Grijalva, who backed President Obama over Hillary Clinton in 2008 after first endorsing John Edwards.
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Kenard Dillon, a junior at Harvard, said he was "taken aback" and "very upset" when he learned about Sullivan's decision to defend Weinstein even as the school grapples with issues of sexual violence.
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"I was a little taken aback by the tone, but I told her I would address it and make sure the person who asked the question wasn't offended by the answer," he said.
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Out of nowhere, I would get taken aback by a sparkling set of ivory incisors I spotted on the street or find myself gawking at a coworker's perfect pearly whites during a meeting.
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"But when I heard Adam's name come up, it took me aback," said Candelora, who ended up giving the nominating speech for Greenberg and watching him easily beat out Mastrangelo for the endorsement.
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" — TREVOR NOAH Noah was particularly taken aback by a revelation that President Trump had attempted to pressure his father into changing his will in a way that favored him over his siblings. "O.
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The unfortunate woman who found the snake was so taken aback she was still shaking when Harrison left her property, he said, but the snake catcher soon realized the huge reptile was docile.
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Bell was working in construction near where he lives in Tennessee when the email arrived, and was so taken aback that he had to read it twice to understand what Stockland was saying.
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The list includes, according to the New York Times: The list reportedly made the rounds in the White House, and even Trump staffers were taken aback at Kobach's presumptuousness, according to the Times.
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Eventually it's Sylvia's turn to be taken aback when she learns that her husband's nonagenarian parents, in spite of their relatively good health, have decided to kill themselves in a joint suicide pact.
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But when de Blasio and Cuomo announced they would push the project through the governor's economic development agency, bypassing input from the city council, many of the same local officials were taken aback.
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Mr. McConnell has also been taken aback by Mr. Bannon's decision to start a political crusade against establishment Republicans in the Senate by recruiting candidates who could put at risk the party's control.
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"), Betts is taken aback by the simplicity of his younger son's words ("Daddy, it's okay") when, after a night of drinking, he blurts out the story of his years "spent inside a box.
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Mr. Dinowitz at one point suggested that it should take commuters no longer than an hour to travel between 242nd Street and Chambers Streets — an assertion that seemed to take Ms. Mullgrav aback.
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If your image of Albert Einstein is the sockless frizzy-haired wizard who wandered the streets of Princeton, you might be taken aback to first encounter the great wizard with his pants down.
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But Mr. Bloomberg's debate performance on Wednesday proved so lackluster that both supporters and rivals counted themselves taken aback, leaving his campaign more rattled than at any point since he entered the race.
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British Prime Minister Theresa May also was taken aback by Trump's tweets: "I never think it's helpful for anybody to speculate on what is an ongoing investigation," she said, according to the BBC.
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Few people expected Lam to respond to all those demands, regardless of how impressive the election results were, but some observers were nevertheless taken aback by the scale of her non-response Tuesday.
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Every time, I am so taken aback by what I'm seeing, so shocked out of myself, that I have no choice but to let Slave Play take me where it wants to go.
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Several sector analysts, however, were taken aback that the company had not seen enough to raise its forecasts for this year and shares in the company fell 2.5 percent after opening in Toronto.
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And it is precisely because of Lewis's stature as an icon of the civil rights movement that Pence and other Trump allies have said they were so taken aback by the congressman's comments.
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I remember being taken aback by her attentive questions about my sex life and deep interest in the nature of romantic intimacy I had experienced, and blushing naively at her curiosity in my response.
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Rights groups and Turkey's Western allies - including the European Union - have been taken aback by the scale of the purge, sounding alarm that Erdogan was using the coup as a pretext to quash dissent.
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"He listened, acknowledged it, I think was somewhat taken aback, even though he had the vice president and general over there, that sometimes people want to hear from him, and he listened to that."
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Healthy relationships rely on communication and consent, the fact that theirs was previously anything but feels like the movie passing a sort of judgment on kink in general that I was taken aback by.
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The undergraduate was taken aback to hear Mrs Clinton recall her reluctance to run as a senator for New York, because the former First Lady thought of herself as "an advocate, not a politician".
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Kislyak was reportedly taken aback by the proposal of allowing an American to use Russian communications equipment, which the Post noted could have carried security risks for both the Trump transition team and Moscow.
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I've been taken aback at how many of my thoughtful, anti-monarchy, republican-with-a-small-"r" friends have been charmed by [her], have welcomed her as a sign of the royal family changing.
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" The Queen, William says, "felt very torn between being the grandmother to William and Harry and her Queen role, and I think everyone was taken aback of what happened and the speed it happened.
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