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
She is now 95 and widowed, and her positivity and determination continue to astonish.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2024
It makes fans believe in the human capacity to astonish and inspire.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 3, 2021
Samuel said, “Most people don’t read the details. It’s the details that astonish me. And Abel had no children.”
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
Not particularly exhausted either, which always astonishes me.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
"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
What astonishes here is the ease with which he emotionally opens himself up to Juliet, only to realize too late that the options available to this couple are running out.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2023
“It astonishes me that no American male singer sings with a full voice anymore. Where have all the tenors gone?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2022
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
Meyers proceeds to tell an astonished Ed that he’s a huge fan of his long-forgotten 1979 poetry collection entitled “Way Past Go,” the postal worker’s fleeting brush with literary success.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
The coaches were astonished at how quickly he picked up the playbook.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
Like most immigrants, I was astonished when I first came to America by the range of choices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
"I did have anxieties that, oh, we're going to have to charge all the time but my experience in the last five months I've been astonished at how easy it is."
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
I yelp with delight and turn to an astonished Greg.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
“Everything I do these days I want to do with an excellent script, and you can play from there — and this was an astonishing script,” Root says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
However, 324 days after he last took to the track, Ingebrigtsen produced an astonishing late surge to claim victory.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
The What’s Resonating newsletter laid out the astonishing levels of media coordination on the day of the committee hearing:
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026
Rheinmetall CEO Armin Papperger on Thursday called the German government's decision "really astonishing", with the company having already completed technical due-diligence work showing that "we can make it happen".
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
He couldn’t hear Renn or Wolf anymore, and the waterfall was sliding closer with astonishing speed, drowning all voices but its own.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
Vocabulary lists containing astonish
"Julius Caesar" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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