awe
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Senior lineman Lucas Rhoa got to watch this all unfold from the sidelines, and he was truly in awe after the game.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
The studio filming left Bentley "in awe", he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
His results echo a previous study that tied momentary awe to reduced daily stress and, over time, higher life satisfaction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Templeton has seen onlookers react with similar awe.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 22, 2026
Beside him, he noted Koffi hadn’t moved, that she was still watching Badwa with perfect awe.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
The keyboard introduction to What Was I Made For?, taken from the recent soundtrack to the Barbie movie, draws gasps and "awes" from around the field.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2023
The pace of building in South Korea awes, but there are gripes that the quality of public exhibitions, and professional standards, varies widely.
From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2023
While Churchill awes spectators with its size and scope, on par with the world’s monumental stadiums, Keeneland, opened in 1936, guards its idyllic appeal.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 22, 2021
She keeps on killing—at cocktail parties and dive bars, even at a Washington Square rally, where she awes Jane Jacobs with a speech about how women “accessorize” the world, as a multiethnic crowd cheers.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 11, 2018
There is an innocence in him that I have found merely foreign and foolish; yet in another moment that seeming innocence reveals a discipline of knowledge and a largeness of purpose that awes me.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
The total eclipse plunged a vast swathe of Spain from broad daylight into darkness Wednesday, drawing awed gasps and applause from spectators gathered in parks and cities across the country.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
"You've got to be awed by it all, which I never cease to be."
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
Some might find it humanizing—proof that below the bloviating gestalt, the president can become awed by existential futility.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
“He started building this world when he was 14,” she says, still a little awed by his confidence.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026
Like the tourists at the solstice today, visitors came to this empire of appearances to be dazzled and awed.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
He has a unique capacity for memorizing data that he frequently recites, awing listeners.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2023
Holmgren stole the show as a soloist at times, swatting shots, swooping for dunks and awing the crowd with his agility.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 23, 2021
In one space as awing as any I saw on my underground weekend, the 14 of us walked into a veritable canyon, with a natural vaulted ceiling.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 26, 2019
The idea is to terrify the enemy: the effect will be to petrify ourselves, shocking and awing us into understanding the full implications of no deal.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 29, 2019
Nevertheless he paraded the Tory remainder of it, doubtless with the intention of awing the entire county.
From The Little Red Foot by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
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