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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

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

But what would astonish — and mystify — earlier generations of U.S.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 27, 2021

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

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

She has a gift for aphorism, the observation that astonishes.

From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2021

I love dusk; it always astonishes me that something so beautiful happens every single day.

From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez

Then, in a scene in which Misty demands she be allowed to finish an audition, she flashes into someone else in a bit of pure craft that leaves those in the room astonished.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

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

First reported by Derry Now, external, Laura said doctors were astonished when she was born with the condition in 1998.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 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

A curious naturalist traveling from the Galápagos to England—a Darwin in reverse—might have been astonished to find that each region had its own species of cow.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Slate editor Shannon Palus analyzes the movie’s astonishing magic trick.

From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2026

The other man and wife are the heart of the film, with the actors in both roles doing astonishing, distinct work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Blame it on Mozart, whose astonishing genius was already self-evident at age 5, when he wrote his first opus , and whose father Leopold controlled his life and career.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

After more than two centuries of astonishing American growth, this mostly forgotten act completed the nation’s current borders.

From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2026

As astonishing as that was for me to think about, since winning Nationals in 2013 I hadn’t lost a single meet in which I’d competed in all four events.

From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles