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awe

[aw] / ɔ /




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“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

"That was all part of the shock and awe of it all for Chloe," David said.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

The book also reveals the depths of the scientists’ emotions about their mission and its consequences, and their awe at the magnificent polar landscape.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

Templeton has seen onlookers react with similar awe.

From MarketWatch Aug. 22, 2026

Any awe I’m feeling for the ship suddenly disappears when I remind myself why we’re here.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

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

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

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

From Slate Jun. 11, 2026

Meagan’s awed expressions clearly demonstrated that as much as you know a place, you can always find more to amaze you.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 30, 2025

I knew I wasn't imagining the awed looks of our comrades across the table.

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia

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

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

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

Horry succeeded in awing Gainey into submission, and in extorting from him a treaty by which he consented, with his officers and men, to maintain a condition of neutrality.

From The Life of Francis Marion by William Gilmore Simms




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