awe
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Senior lineman Lucas Rhoa got to watch this all unfold from the sidelines, and he was truly in awe after the game.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
It was a sound of pity and awe, a sound that said this isn’t only history, it is human tragedy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
“I’m just in awe watching her rebound,” teammate Allisha Gray said after Reese’s record-setting performance in L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026
The studio filming left Bentley "in awe", he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Akira watched on in awe as Natalie told her story and showed pictures of the storm on the screen behind her.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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As for the fans, James awes, but he doesn’t quite connect.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2024
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
There is an innocence in him that I have found merely foreign and foolish; yet in another moment that seeming innocence reveals a discipline of knowledge and a largeness of purpose that awes me.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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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
Using every tool at his disposal — namely his violins, guitars, looping machine and expressive voice — Bird created a whirling one-man-band effect that somehow awed and soothed the crowd in equal measure.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 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
Another thing that awed me was their almost total lack of information outside their milieu.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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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
The idea is to terrify the enemy: the effect will be to petrify ourselves, shocking and awing us into understanding the full implications of no deal.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 29, 2019
The old alchemist was a secretive and pretentious person and used to invent queer names for the purpose of mystifying and awing the ignorant.
From Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries by Edwin E. Slosson
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