awe-struck
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The state insists the girl enter the mainstream American education system while mom goes to work; the innocent, awe-struck Carrie enters Ewen High with anticipation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
When the gig ends, cameras capture a young fan in an awe-struck stupor, unable to tear himself away from his spot on the stadium floor.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
During the nearly seven-hour lunar flyby, astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover, Jeremy Hansen and Reid Weisman gave near-literary descriptions of lunar surface features and left scientists in Houston awe-struck.
From Barron's ● Apr. 11, 2026
With the metal in colliding knives, the foley work of sand beneath a boot and the glottal roaring of a sandworm, I am reduced to a slack, muttering, awe-struck child.
From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2025
He adds, that he "was fascinated by his brilliancy and acumen, in love with his cordiality and ardor, and awe-struck by the transparency of his conduct and the purity of his principles."
From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Henry B. Stanton
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