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Regardless, the Hollywood Park plan won and the stadium was ultimately constructed, a $5-billion marvel that in February will play host to its second Super Bowl.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Watch an impressive new movie: Wildwood, the new animated film from the studio that made Coraline, is a marvel.

From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2026

A magnificent two-volume biography of Charles Darwin has been shortened into a marvel of economy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Gareth Bale, the Welsh marvel, who has more Champions League winner's medals than the rest of this list combined.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

I marvel at its bright green body, curved pink beak, the pink rings around its neck, and its beady eyes.

From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman

As in the Savannah Bananas, the traveling, dancing, stadium-packing baseball circus—and one of the greatest, most affordable entertainment marvels of its time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

Arranged in three sections based on his interests as an observer—plants, labor conditions and architecture—the show centers on his wanderings and the marvels that captivated him forever after.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

After the delays and cost increases, these projects have not exactly delivered reliable marvels.

From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026

He marvels at the latest evidence of the grandchildren’s genius, like any grandfather should, and spoils them with treats and toys.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

One of them spent the whole time mopping his face and neck and muttering foreign phrases which Lyddie was sure had to do with the temperature rather than the marvels of the Concord Corporation.

From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson

Afterward, closer Trevor Megill marveled at Ashby “overcoming these long asks that he’s getting from Murphy.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

In 1933, Fortune magazine marveled that Ford was “as much interested in the soya bean as he is in the V-8” engine.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

I marveled at Bunbury’s humility, but agreed with him that the mystery was far from solved.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

“And with music in Spanish, not English,” marveled Lara.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

He marveled that any force, even an earthquake, had been strong enough to uproot it.

From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret

"I think you guys are our loudest crowd ever, literally," marvelled Megan Skiendiel.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

And in May 2025 Trump sounded more than a little envious of his Arab hosts as he praised the marble of Qatar's royal palace as "perfecto" and marvelled at Saudi Arabia's architecture.

From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026

"I can make out all the letters of the alphabet, even the smallest ones," he marvelled, pointing to his phone screen.

From Barron's ● May 27, 2026

Maher, a crochety liberal-leaning comic who has grown more crochety and less liberal as societal norms have passed him by, marvelled at the fact that he could make the commander-in-chief laugh.

From Salon ● Apr. 22, 2025

His gold and his silver were precious to him once more, and at times he marvelled secretly at himself that he had ever spent so freely upon a woman.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

Others are marveling at how far they’ve come in preparing for the event.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

“It’s an unusual case,” Gadeberg said, marveling at the allegations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

We would be sipping ice-cold spritzes at cafés overlooking the Mediterranean, frolicking down cobblestone streets lined with charming boutiques, and marveling at the frescoes and marble sculptures adorning grand cathedrals.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026

In another, he toured the inside of an American fire station, marveling at the size of the trucks and the station itself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026

He was sitting with his knees drawn up and his arms across them, looking out across the plain as she’d done, and marveling at the extent of it.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

Passengers tend to spend the first few minutes of the ride "marvelling, videoing the steering wheel moving on its own, taking selfies", Fischer said.

From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026

Australian tourist Olivia Martell-Groves went all in for the seasonal experience, and donned a flower-printed kimono while marvelling at the flowers.

From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 2026

His own style, which is to say his mind, was compulsively metaphorical, gorgeously maximal, enough so to make him worry about “an implicit marvelling at myself as expressor.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025

There was a celebrated Royal opening in 2004 where I remember one hard-nosed journalist marvelling at what had been achieved by this "dapper wee man in a kilt".

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2025

The king and all his company sat silent on their horses, marvelling, perceiving that the power of Saruman was overthrown; but how they could not guess.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien