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
She is now 95 and widowed, and her positivity and determination continue to astonish.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2024
Such arguments astonish educators who have found ways to accelerate children successfully.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 16, 2022
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
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
“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
“It astonishes me that no American male singer sings with a full voice anymore. Where have all the tenors gone?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2022
Even now, a fact as ordinary, as obvious, as this astonishes him.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
Fielder doesn’t believe her and is often troubled and astonished by what she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
Launched in the U.S. in 1896, with the New York premiere of Thomas Edison’s Vitascope film projector, silent movies astonished audiences.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
At least one of Tomlin’s former players is astonished that he was able to construct a sprawling “Minecraft” community in the limited spare time enjoyed by an NFL head coach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Rescuers said they were astonished and alarmed to see the number of people packed onto the dinghy.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
Today, those who study Mayan culture are astonished by their art, architecture, sculpture, and painting and their understandings of time and mathematics.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
And Dave Karger adds, “I’d love to see Coon recognized for her astonishing work in ‘The Liberation.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
Slate editor Shannon Palus analyzes the movie’s astonishing magic trick.
From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2026
And as we explore on the latest episode of ‘Acquired’, it was this exact decision that contributes to “Seinfeld’s” astonishing relevance today, three decades after it aired.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
The back-to-back European champions sliced through City with astonishing ease to take a 3-0 lead into half-time, and were still able to score another despite a spirited second-half fightback from the Premier League leaders.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
"This child has already read an astonishing number of books," Miss Honey said.
From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl
Vocabulary lists containing astonish
"Julius Caesar" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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