astound
Example Sentences
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Since 2019, China has added an astounding 2,500 terawatt hours of capacity—more than 10 times what the U.S. has over the same period.
But even humble midday meals are astoundingly more expensive, especially for office workers.
From Salon
Plank responded by saying that she "thought maybe things had gotten better", and that it was "astounding they have gotten away with so much".
From BBC
Cignetti, who just led Indiana to the most astounding turnaround in the sport’s history, is not young.
At the British embassy in Vilnius, Lithuania, he was taken seriously by MI6, which was astounded by the wealth of information the former archivist had to offer.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.