"Much to my surprise...” (5)

I believe the answer is:

oddly

(Other definitions for oddly that I've seen before include "Strangely, curiously" , "Unusually" , "This clue [32A] is not numbered so" , "In a strange manner" , "in a curious way" .)

I've seen this clue in The Wall Street Journal.

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