astonish
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Investment in artificial intelligence continues to astonish amid a technological arms race.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2025
Maggie Smith never failed to illuminate and astonish.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2024
For a half-century, the German artist Ursula Schultze-Bluhm made work that could astonish viewers.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2023
Bouden added that “I have a lot of hope that Tunisia is going to get better and better, and it will accomplish things that will probably astonish you in the coming months.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 19, 2023
Samuel said, “Most people don’t read the details. It’s the details that astonish me. And Abel had no children.”
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
Throughout Mr. Stob’s narrative, their success astonishes onlookers and converts skeptics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
What always astonishes me about your letters is their length My God, their length!
From Salon ● Feb. 9, 2025
"Even today, the story of my father and my mother, while giving me much pain, astonishes me still," Blouin said.
From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2025
“I’d like to do something with them like the canvases of the sunflowers because it astonishes me that no one has done them as I see them.”
From New York Times ● May 11, 2023
Even now, a fact as ordinary, as obvious, as this astonishes him.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
Isaiah Berlin called Alexander Herzen “a Russian Voltaire,” who astonished his 19th- century audiences with a “prodigal opulence of intellect.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Meyers proceeds to tell an astonished Ed that he’s a huge fan of his long-forgotten 1979 poetry collection entitled “Way Past Go,” the postal worker’s fleeting brush with literary success.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
He said in a statement that he had been "astonished that such an important story had largely faded from public memory".
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
The Royal Belgian Football Association said it was "astonished" and stressed it was "investigating all potential options".
From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026
For his part, Bobby was astonished at how much insight he absorbed from the book.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
What’s astonishing after the events of the past couple of months is not how fearful Wall Street is, but how complacent.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
"For the first time, we have shown that black holes influence the broader cosmic environment through a shock wave of astonishing power," adds Yamada.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
Rapid advances in artificial intelligence have been matched by an astonishing decline in student learning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
From 2010 to 2025, Reno’s population grew an astonishing 26%, to more than 283,000 people.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Then Markie said the second most astonishing thing ever.
From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen
Vocabulary lists containing astonish
"Julius Caesar" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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