astonish
Example Sentences
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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
For a half-century, the German artist Ursula Schultze-Bluhm made work that could astonish viewers.
From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2023
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
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Vocabulary lists containing astonish
"Julius Caesar" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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