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astounding

[uh-staun-ding] / əˈstaʊn dɪŋ /


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Felix Salmon, Elizabeth Spiers, and Emily Peck discuss what this deal signals about the astounding amounts of money being thrown around the relatively niche market of A.I. investment.

From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026

The numbers involved in AI are truly astounding.

From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026

Fulton lured 40 friends and relatives on board and chugged all the way to Albany and back, covering 300 miles in 62 hours—an astounding pace of nearly 5 miles an hour.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

It’s an astounding rise from a tiny, non-scholarship university in San Diego.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

Suddenly Miss Ellis began to speak, her voice bright and fake like a laxative commercial: “Well, I’ve got some rather astounding news for you, Gilly.”

From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson




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