astonish
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Investment in artificial intelligence continues to astonish amid a technological arms race.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2025
Maggie Smith never failed to illuminate and astonish.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2024
For a half-century, the German artist Ursula Schultze-Bluhm made work that could astonish viewers.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2023
Such arguments astonish educators who have found ways to accelerate children successfully.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 16, 2022
There was nothing in all this either to astonish or interest, and it caught Emma’s attention only as it united with the subject which already engaged her mind.
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
Not particularly exhausted either, which always astonishes me.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
What always astonishes me about your letters is their length My God, their length!
From Salon ● Feb. 9, 2025
"Even today, the story of my father and my mother, while giving me much pain, astonishes me still," Blouin said.
From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2025
The architectural wonder of writer-director Brady Corbet’s 215-minute postwar immigrant epic “The Brutalist” astonishes onscreen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 26, 2024
I love dusk; it always astonishes me that something so beautiful happens every single day.
From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez
Launched in the U.S. in 1896, with the New York premiere of Thomas Edison’s Vitascope film projector, silent movies astonished audiences.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
He gave plate umpire Roberto Ortiz an astonished look and walked to the dugout shaking his head.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Rescuers said they were astonished and alarmed to see the number of people packed onto the dinghy.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
First reported by Derry Now, external, Laura said doctors were astonished when she was born with the condition in 1998.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
Then he wipes his face, leans over to retrieve his hat, bows to the astonished audience of menagerie workers, and continues on his way.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
She also converted to give Fiji an astonishing 8-0 lead.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026
"To detect intact heme-derived molecules in 115-million-year-old red blood cells is astonishing: this really is a landmark discovery," Professor Grice said.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026
On a 10-year view, the difference between buying into the S&P 500 at the best time and buying into it at the worst time was worth an astonishing 25% per year.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026
In late September, the aspens covering the summit turn from green to amber gold, transforming the mountainside into an astonishing display of autumn color.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
As astonishing as that was for me to think about, since winning Nationals in 2013 I hadn’t lost a single meet in which I’d competed in all four events.
From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles
Vocabulary lists containing astonish
"Julius Caesar" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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