stunned
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"We were stunned to look at a so far unobserved state in a molybdenum-containing nitrogenase!"
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
Deep in its territory, just before the half, it stunned USC by turning an improbable fake punt into a 44-yard gain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
On September 11, 2001, we were stunned and saddened not only by the loss of thousands of lives and the World Trade Center towers, but also by the loss of our beautiful wedding venue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 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
She was finding out what I knew, what I thought, and somewhere in that day, I realized with a kind of shock, or stunned belief, that we were actually “talking.”
From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen
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