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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

In her first address of the 2022 commencement season, Biden told the more than 1,000 graduates that “you astonish me with your grit and your determination and that is why I love teaching community college.”

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 7, 2022

But what would astonish — and mystify — earlier generations of U.S.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 27, 2021

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

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

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

I love dusk; it always astonishes me that something so beautiful happens every single day.

From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez

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

“I just want to tell you how much Ms. magazine has meant to me over the years — and my husband too,” she told an astonished Steinem.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

First reported by Derry Now, external, Laura said doctors were astonished when she was born with the condition in 1998.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 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

And then one by one they threw their weapons at Balder, and each of them was astonished and amazed.

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman

Slate editor Shannon Palus analyzes the movie’s astonishing magic trick.

From Slate ● Oct. 26, 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

After more than two centuries of astonishing American growth, this mostly forgotten act completed the nation’s current borders.

From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2026

The only consolation for Sirianni might be that it wasn’t even the most astonishing ending on Sunday afternoon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Soon she would fully come into her own, accomplishing the seemingly impossible—and astonishing the world.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield