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And by inspiring simultaneous awe over good corporate citizenship and 72-pound wheels of Parmigiano reggiano, Costco seems to be one of the few entities with the cachet and mass appeal to break through.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

I was just in awe of the history.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

Folk from these parts gawping and filming their visitors in awe.

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026

One can be in awe of a thing and still be deeply troubled by it.

From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2026

“It is the Black Crochan,” Taran whispered in fear and awe.

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander

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

She keeps on killing—at cocktail parties and dive bars, even at a Washington Square rally, where she awes Jane Jacobs with a speech about how women “accessorize” the world, as a multiethnic crowd cheers.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 11, 2018

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

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

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

Lawrence’s childhood home—the narrator is awed and cowed by the impossibly delicate stemware and casual references to “Finnegan’s Wake.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025

Weber, who shares several scenes with Kotsur where they converse in sign language, said he was awed when he met the Oscar winner on the first day of rehearsals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2025

His shock-and-awe campaign has been theatrical, but I’m neither shocked nor awed.

From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2025

“That was some ball game,” I said, a little awed by what he was telling me.

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok

He has a unique capacity for memorizing data that he frequently recites, awing listeners.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2023

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

Doing the things only she can do, awing her peers while trying to silence her inner critic in the process.

From Seattle Times ● May 20, 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

"It is my father," said she, still standing in the way and awing him by the power of her beauty.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 by Various