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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

For a half-century, the German artist Ursula Schultze-Bluhm made work that could astonish viewers.

From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2023

Their presence in Africa would astonish us, if the presence of Indonesian people on Madagascar had not already alerted us to Africa’s prehistoric Asian connection.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Throughout Mr. Stob’s narrative, their success astonishes onlookers and converts skeptics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 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

“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

Knowing that they'll grow older as time passes, they'll become old the way Gramps was, with gray hair and a tremble in his step, so much love still in their hearts—this astonishes me.

From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour

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

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

Rescuers said they were astonished and alarmed to see the number of people packed onto the dinghy.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 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

The Gestapo were astonished that teenagers had conducted such resistance activity.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Dr Hausfather said the latest projections were "astonishing" and are likely to set new records "by a remarkable amount".

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 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

Holmes herself shied from the public eye, making the surprise release of the documentary "You Can See Everything" all the more astonishing when it debuted to high praise at the Telluride Film Festival in September.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

It is paying interest to this day: “It is astonishing to think of the wars, revolutions, religious revolt, pandemics and other disasters this bond has survived,” the author marvels.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Rooster Jim pulled an enormous blue bandanna from his pocket and blew his nose with astonishing energy.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson