marvel

A magnificent two-volume biography of Charles Darwin has been shortened into a marvel of economy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

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

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

“Well, I'm Abina. I have an arachna marvel, a Paragon of Sound.”

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

“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

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

Mr. Bryson’s pivotal summer is full of heroes, frauds, fads and marvels, but the reader is aware of what the revelers cannot yet imagine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

There were wonders for sale, and marvels, and miracles; there were things undreamed-of and objects unimagined.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman

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

The scene marked a staggering shift for a man who, at the height of the pandemic, marveled at his own “unimaginable” fame.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

When Molly Taylor started taking Mounjaro in the fall of 2024, she marveled at the speed of results.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

Fadi looked at the cars racing by and marveled at their speed.

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai

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

Moyes marvelled at the way United's new number one dealt with Everton's bombardment of corners, which drew criticism from some - but Lammens accepts as part of the game.

From BBC ● Feb. 26, 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

Pippin marvelled at his strength, seeing the passage that he had already forced with no other tool than his great limbs.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Kurt Sawitskas has already spent weeks analyzing the carousel’s innards, marveling at its antique nature, but also being amazed that it’s still mostly intact.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 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

She and Justin held their daughter for a few precious moments as her heartbeat stilled, marveling at her perfect tiny fingers and toes and whispering private words of love.

From Salon ● May 27, 2026

I couldn’t get over marveling at how their hair was straight and shiny like white men’s hair; Ella told me this was called a “conk.”

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

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

Musk has responded to the protests by sharing a video on X - the social media platform he owns - of a Cybertruck customer in Texas marvelling at the vehicle's full self-driving mode.

From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2025

“Conjuring ain't marvelling, that's for sure,” Gran shouted from the porch with a laugh.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton