marvel

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

May you marvel at this story of the person behind the painting as much as I do at the tenacious person behind the telling.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

When I was young, I used to marvel at countries whose debt-to-GDP ratios exceeded 120%.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026

With AI images bleeding into the real world at a pace none of us can keep up with, there’s human marvel to behold in Anderson’s madness.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

“Here is a marvel indeed,” they would say, and make comparisons with ordinary parents who sometimes bore a child of matchless brilliance; or with a devout couple who had brought forth a wretch.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

“From the first charge to Darius’s escape,” Mr. Richardson marvels, “no more than two hours had passed. But in that time the world had changed.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

More than 20 years later, Balza marvels at how popular the Japanese sneakers have become.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

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

From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026

Ripa marvels at the number of adults they meet who are named Hayley and Mateo.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

“I just think there’s no use searching the world for Wonders when you can’t see the marvels right under your own nose.”

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney

The writer John McPhee, who chronicled the alarmingly kinetic San Gabriels in his book “The Control of Nature,” marveled at the human stubbornness that keeps us here.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 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

Francis Skilling, a physician and longtime subscriber who got a fake credit-card text and returned the call, marveled at the scammer’s professional-sounding patter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

Inside, she unfolded handkerchiefs, crisp white underwear, bars of Lux soap, and chocolate, and she marveled that they had reached her intact, even sent through the Red Cross.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

He wandered the aisles of grocery stores marveling at the goods on sale—even if his family, which arrived with $400, couldn’t often indulge his newfound obsession with Coca-Cola.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 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

The three-story, 163,000-square-foot football-only facility opened Wednesday night, with Riley reflecting back on that napkin and marveling at how far the program had come since.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

A couple of the others laughed with him, marveling that anyone could believe such nonsense.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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

It was the man with owl-eyed glasses whom I had found marvelling over Gatsby's books in the library one night three months before.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald