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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

Their presence in Africa would astonish us, if the presence of Indonesian people on Madagascar had not already alerted us to Africa’s prehistoric Asian connection.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Not particularly exhausted either, which always astonishes me.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026

"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

The architectural wonder of writer-director Brady Corbet’s 215-minute postwar immigrant epic “The Brutalist” astonishes onscreen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 26, 2024

What astonishes here is the ease with which he emotionally opens himself up to Juliet, only to realize too late that the options available to this couple are running out.

From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2023

Even now, a fact as ordinary, as obvious, as this astonishes him.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

“I just want to tell you how much Ms. magazine has meant to me over the years — and my husband too,” she told an astonished Steinem.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

Dudamel opened with a Latinized version of Strauss’ “Tritsch-Tratsch Polka,” with which he once astonished the Viennese at their traditional New Year’s concert, and repeated Romero’s “Fuga.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

Fedorova's employers said this week they were astonished to learn of the expulsion order, which they said amounted to "a particularly serious infringement of freedom of expression".

From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 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

I was astonished that even at that late hour, way past my usual bedtime, there were streetcars and pedestrians everywhere.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson

The Daily Mirror splashes on a "war of words" and "Earl's astonishing claims" after excerpts were released.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

The L.A. aqueduct, an astonishing feat of engineering, brought hundreds of millions of gallons a day down more than 200 miles from the Owens Valley into the San Fernando Valley.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

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

The voyages of discovery brought about an astonishing transformation in geographical knowledge from 1460 onwards.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton