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The phrase "are often startling" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that frequently causes surprise or shock.
Example: "The results of the experiment are often startling, revealing unexpected patterns in the data."
Alternatives: "are frequently surprising" or "are commonly shocking".
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Although their contents are often startling and troubling, the cables are unlikely to gratify conspiracy theorists.
When a novelist does examine beauty more closely, the results are often startling.
"A House Unlocked" ripples outward, and its links to a larger world are often startling.
Conditions faced by widows in Afghanistan and elsewhere are often startling to readers in Western industrialized nations.
Her account "ripples outward, and its links to a larger world are often startling," John Vernon said here in 2002.
And so it is that each year, when Nancy Foner, a professor of sociology at Hunter, requires the students in her course "The Peopling of New York" to interview a close relative about the family's recent history, the discoveries are often startling, to the students as well as to their classmates.
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We rarely see them, and when we do it's often startling.
Together their vision is often startling but always shows the play full respect.
'You've gone right by the corner where we turn for the firehouse.'" Elsewhere, it is often startling and poetic.
The movie itself is often startling and engrossing, but the question of what the heck is going on, and why, is never entirely absent from your mind.
His orchestration is often startling, yet its deployment is always at the service of the more innate musical events of the composition.
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