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Investment in artificial intelligence continues to astonish amid a technological arms race.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2025

No matter the general state of the project she was in, Smith never failed to illuminate, astonish and entertain.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2024

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

From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2023

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 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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

What always astonishes me about your letters is their length My God, their length!

From Salon ● Feb. 9, 2025

"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

Even now, a fact as ordinary, as obvious, as this astonishes him.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

The coaches were astonished at how quickly he picked up the playbook.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 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

I will be astonished if they can accomplish what is necessary in 60 days.

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026

"I did have anxieties that, oh, we're going to have to charge all the time but my experience in the last five months I've been astonished at how easy it is."

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026

“You mean he’s really all right?” asked Charlie, astonished.

From "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl

One more knockdown, one astonishing comeback and a second-round knockout later, the blockbuster bout was revived.

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026

In return, he left us a sublime body of work, one that languished in astonishing critical neglect until the mid-19th and early-20th centuries, the result of a dwindling taste for monastic and devotional art.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

It has also given the world a taste of what hacking might look like in the age of powerful AI tools that can find never-before-seen software bugs and exploit them at astonishing speeds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

In fact, in the last five years, Spain have now won an astonishing 16 world and European titles from under-17 to senior level.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

Only after he had shut the door, and the taxi was on its way back downtown to Mia’s cramped apartment, did she unfold the paper to see that astonishing figure again: $10,000.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng