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marvel

[mahr-vuhl] / ˈmɑr vəl /




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The new Lincoln Memorial undercroft is more than a tribute to an engineering marvel; it is a reminder that even iconic monuments must evolve over time, none as meaningfully as this one has.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

As Banderas plays him, he’s a bearish marvel of a man with the kind of earthy soul that would have had Ernest Hemingway chugging salty dogs on his barstool all night.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

The Ming dynasty floating-crab cup is a marvel to behold.

From MarketWatch Aug. 6, 2026

But listening back now, it’s hard not to marvel at how timeless this timely track feels.

From Salon Aug. 3, 2026

“Maybe one of you will have a story marvel like mine and be a Paragon of Sound. The ears listen well!”

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

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

From Salon Aug. 20, 2026

One of the marvels of this novel is how effortlessly such sentences land, despite being honed to perfection.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 20, 2026

"I've seen workshops that are nigh on dust-free," marvels furniture maker and woodwork instructor Ryan Saunders.

From BBC May 11, 2026

In "Wild London", broadcast in early 2026, he marvels at the wildlife of the British capital, his birthplace, from foxes and beavers to hedgehogs and harvest mice.

From Barron's May 6, 2026

And then a marvel of marvels came to pass.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

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

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

As I walked through downtown, I marveled at how the overwhelmingly Gen Z throngs expressed their mexicanidad.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 6, 2026

Touring a young United States in 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville marveled at Americans’ boundless appetite for commerce, industry and wealth.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 4, 2026

I marveled at how much courage it must take to turn your real life into art, just for the chance that one person might see it and be impacted by it.

From Salon Jun. 22, 2026

Danny and Glory marveled at all of it.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

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

And whilst you may have marvelled at the Cold Moon earlier in December, a fourth consecutive supermoon is on its way in early January.

From BBC Dec. 6, 2025

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

At times they were in favour and received privileges ordinary Russians would have marvelled at; at others their continued survival as professional composers hung by a thread.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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

The past several years have left BP investors, employees and competitors marveling at how much upheaval one company—already subject to the forces of a volatile sector—can produce from within.

From The Wall Street Journal May 29, 2026

We looked at maps, got advice on where to go next and ate our sack lunches at a picnic table, marveling at those green slopes.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 10, 2026

In fact, your guide probably has had no direct knowledge of—or even personal interest in—sunbathing on the Gulf Coast, rock climbing in Moab, or marveling at the architecture of Milan.

From Slate Mar. 28, 2026

Frank studied the two of them, quietly marveling how the tension between them had disappeared.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

Never mind the gap, onlookers were marvelling at a sheer chasm in class between the two teams.

From BBC Jul. 4, 2026

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

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




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