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awe

[aw] / ɔ /




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But across the entire Cardinals organization, the people who guided Báez through his journey watched his performance in awe.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 16, 2026

Consider his point of view: America is the indefatigable Colossus, an object of awe that put a man on the moon in a decade and produced an atomic bomb in half that time.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

Rarely do we stop to admire vultures through binoculars or photograph in awe.

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

Millions of Europeans will contemplate the sky in awe on Wednesday as a rare total solar eclipse crosses part of the continent and plunges a swathe of Spain into eerie daytime darkness.

From Barron's Aug. 11, 2026

His voice rose to a shout of awe.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

The keyboard introduction to What Was I Made For?, taken from the recent soundtrack to the Barbie movie, draws gasps and "awes" from around the field.

From BBC Aug. 25, 2023

The pace of building in South Korea awes, but there are gripes that the quality of public exhibitions, and professional standards, varies widely.

From New York Times Jan. 5, 2023

While Churchill awes spectators with its size and scope, on par with the world’s monumental stadiums, Keeneland, opened in 1936, guards its idyllic appeal.

From Washington Post Sep. 22, 2021

The teacher has already inserted into the hat the rabbit whose production in the classroom awes the undergraduates.

From The New Yorker Aug. 24, 2015

And godless though I am, the fact of being human, the fact of possessing the gift of study, and thus being remarkable among all the matter floating through the cosmos, still awes me.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The total eclipse plunged a vast swathe of Spain from broad daylight into darkness Wednesday, drawing awed gasps and applause from spectators gathered in parks and cities across the country.

From Barron's Aug. 12, 2026

"You've got to be awed by it all, which I never cease to be."

From BBC Jul. 31, 2026

But credit Neill for both understanding the assignment and not quite settling for those awed stares of Spielbergian wonder.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 13, 2026

Some might find it humanizing—proof that below the bloviating gestalt, the president can become awed by existential futility.

From Slate Jun. 11, 2026

Now our immediate hope was that his chemical colleagues would be more than ever awed by his intellect and not probe the details of his model.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

He has a unique capacity for memorizing data that he frequently recites, awing listeners.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 20, 2023

Holmgren stole the show as a soloist at times, swatting shots, swooping for dunks and awing the crowd with his agility.

From Seattle Times Nov. 23, 2021

Inside the Sistine Chapel, where in the past I have been shoved and elbowed by the crowds, about 30 spectators were awing over Perugino’s frescoes and craning to see Michelangelo’s burly musclemen on the ceiling.

From New York Times Jun. 25, 2021

In one space as awing as any I saw on my underground weekend, the 14 of us walked into a veritable canyon, with a natural vaulted ceiling.

From Washington Post Sep. 26, 2019

You will need its awing and repressing influence, in many a trying scene, in many a severe temptation.

From Sermons to the Natural Man by William G. T. (William Greenough Thayer) Shedd




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