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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

There’s a wealth of young poets writing today whose work continues to astonish and delight me.

From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2021

There was nothing in all this either to astonish or interest, and it caught Emma’s attention only as it united with the subject which already engaged her mind.

From "Emma" by Jane Austen

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

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

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

FIFA’s insistence that the judiciary body that made the decision was independent did nothing to assuage Belgium’s soccer federation, which said it was astonished by the move.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

Such a move astonished Spain and the Venetians and stopped them in their tracks, the latter out of fear and the former out of a desire to recover the entire Kingdom of Naples.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

The film recounts French high-wire artist Philippe Petit’s astonishing 1974 stunt, in which he and a small band of co-conspirators secretly rigged a cable between the towers, allowing Petit to walk high above lower Manhattan.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Most astonishing is the case of Massachusetts, which ranks third overall in union strength.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Kante became the beating heart of Claudio Ranieri's midfield as Leicester went on their astonishing title-winning run.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

Only eight weeks ago, before his astonishing run to the last four at the All England Club, he was ranked outside the top 100.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

The Smokies harbor an astonishing range of plant life—over 1,500 types of wildflower, a thousand varieties of shrub, 530 mosses and lichen, 2,000 types of fungi.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson