astound
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For now, Chambliss is content piling up plays that astound football fans across the country—except for those who know him best.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 6, 2026
Train punctuality in Germany is appalling - worse than in the UK, which will astound weary British commuters.
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2025
But because of the breadth of her catalog, the presentation here could still astound you.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2024
A Banksy work does not astound with technique or formal innovation, nor is it meant to.
From New York Times ● May 30, 2024
“It’s astound ing. In so many ways, you’re just like him. You’re different, too, of course—you’re gentler and sweeter—but everything you’re saying ... you sound like Abe, when he first came to stay with us.”
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
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Having seen “The Drama” in theaters twice, what astounds me is witnessing the audience’s open-mindedness.
From Salon ● Apr. 9, 2026
He added that "the power with which nature comes back astounds biologists", stressing how "extraordinarily resilient" animals, fish, sea life and plants are "if you just stop doing bad things to them."
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2025
Drifting between boiling anger and crushing regret, O’Brien’s delivery of a monologue to the ghost of Rocky astounds for its insides-bearing rawness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2025
“Shrinking” is more intimate, a show about hard emotions and hanging out that happens to star a screen legend whose presence still astounds everyone.
From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2023
Most of them are a good decade younger than me, and this astounds me.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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In inner-city Sydney, Australia, first-time mum Paige Stewart was astounded as she watched her children's progress with the programme.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
Steve Gutshall of Murrells Inlet, was left astounded by Graham’s debate performance and felt that plenty of others were too.
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026
"We were astounded and overjoyed, actually," Haigwood said.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026
Mississippi has astounded the nation, but the pressure is on to take the next step.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 8, 2026
Sometimes, hearing the stories, remembering his own childhood, Matty was astounded.
From "Messenger" by Lois Lowry
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AEW, likewise, has seen an astounding number of early deaths in its seven years of existence.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
It is an astounding turn for a city once known as rapidly growing and notoriously unaffordable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
But the 23-year-old's lack of match fitness appeared to finally catch up with him in a high-octane encounter filled with breathless exchanges and astounding displays of athleticism.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
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
Composers of the fourteenth century were inspired by the runting acoustics of the astounding cathedrals in which they worked.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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Vocabulary lists containing astound
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 26–31
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