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awe

[aw] / ɔ /




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Templeton has seen onlookers react with similar awe.

From MarketWatch Aug. 22, 2026

"It jumped out of the water, we all just looked at each other in awe," he said.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

Millions of Europeans will contemplate the sky in awe on Wednesday as a rare total solar eclipse crosses part of the continent and plunges a swathe of Spain into eerie daytime darkness.

From Barron's Aug. 11, 2026

He also has a tendency to get starry-eyed around big-name pitchers; his awe of Mr. Skubal verges on sycophantic.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

“These sew anything. Even appendages,” said Thorn in awe.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega

That tidbit elicited oohs, awes and cheers from the crowd at Boston’s Wang Theater.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 10, 2023

The keyboard introduction to What Was I Made For?, taken from the recent soundtrack to the Barbie movie, draws gasps and "awes" from around the field.

From BBC Aug. 25, 2023

The pace of building in South Korea awes, but there are gripes that the quality of public exhibitions, and professional standards, varies widely.

From New York Times Jan. 5, 2023

While Churchill awes spectators with its size and scope, on par with the world’s monumental stadiums, Keeneland, opened in 1936, guards its idyllic appeal.

From Washington Post Sep. 22, 2021

And godless though I am, the fact of being human, the fact of possessing the gift of study, and thus being remarkable among all the matter floating through the cosmos, still awes me.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The total eclipse plunged a vast swathe of Spain from broad daylight into darkness Wednesday, drawing awed gasps and applause from spectators gathered in parks and cities across the country.

From Barron's Aug. 12, 2026

Admissions officers described numerous times where a seemingly far-fetched application proved true, and awed them.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

"You've got to be awed by it all, which I never cease to be."

From BBC Jul. 31, 2026

But credit Neill for both understanding the assignment and not quite settling for those awed stares of Spielbergian wonder.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 13, 2026

As for Lazlo, he was awed and humbled.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

He has a unique capacity for memorizing data that he frequently recites, awing listeners.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 20, 2023

Doing the things only she can do, awing her peers while trying to silence her inner critic in the process.

From Seattle Times May 20, 2021

In one space as awing as any I saw on my underground weekend, the 14 of us walked into a veritable canyon, with a natural vaulted ceiling.

From Washington Post Sep. 26, 2019

The idea is to terrify the enemy: the effect will be to petrify ourselves, shocking and awing us into understanding the full implications of no deal.

From The Guardian Jul. 29, 2019

It was not fear that seemed to clutch at their hearts and make them pound, or that struck them silent, it was an awing sense of something supernatural, something not quite real.

From The Boy Scouts of the Air in Indian Land by Gordon Stuart




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