stunned
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"I'd had a lot of calls that day from people who cared, who were stunned... and I just felt there was a lightness in his tone about Diana's death that really jarred with me."
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
"We were stunned to look at a so far unobserved state in a molybdenum-containing nitrogenase!"
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
He’d been stunned by his star’s nearly centurylong sentence and came away from a review of the case suspecting that Walters may have been wrongfully convicted.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
By that point, Ohio State had just blown a 20-point, fourth-quarter lead to Texas, and Oregon had, hours earlier, been stunned by Oklahoma State.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
George and Owen watched in stunned silence as the big polar bear ripped away another piece of foam padding and chewed on it.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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