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marvel

[mahr-vuhl] / ˈmɑr vəl /




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The Ming dynasty floating-crab cup is a marvel to behold.

From MarketWatch Aug. 6, 2026

Completed in 1902, the building was an architectural marvel with a pioneering steel-frame construction making it one of the city's first skyscrapers.

From BBC Jul. 26, 2026

Written after Lopez was starstruck by a woman, its first lyrics begin in wondrous marvel: “Tal vez fue tu mirada,” or, “Perhaps it was your gaze.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 17, 2026

People still marvel at Miyazaki’s handcrafted backgrounds and his painstaking dedication to balancing its feather-light score with the melodies of flowing water or the gentle crunch of a child’s footfalls on grass and gravel.

From Salon Jul. 15, 2026

Of all the tales of marvel that I could tell you, none surpass in wonder and coolness the one I am about to tell.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

Ripa marvels at the number of adults they meet who are named Hayley and Mateo.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 4, 2026

One of the marvels of this novel is how effortlessly such sentences land, despite being honed to perfection.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 20, 2026

Emparanza marvels at the speed of such AI-driven fermentation design.

From BBC Jun. 4, 2026

In "Wild London", broadcast in early 2026, he marvels at the wildlife of the British capital, his birthplace, from foxes and beavers to hedgehogs and harvest mice.

From Barron's May 6, 2026

Five trainees with rare marvels experimented, learning to share their talents unnaturally.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

When Molly Taylor started taking Mounjaro in the fall of 2024, she marveled at the speed of results.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

Touring a young United States in 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville marveled at Americans’ boundless appetite for commerce, industry and wealth.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 4, 2026

ROMONT, Switzerland—Willy Wonka would have marveled at one of the machines at a manufacturing plant here—a contraption that injects flavors into coffee capsules via a set of whirring tubes labeled “hazelnut,” “caramel,” and “blueberry cheesecake.”

From Barron's Jun. 10, 2026

I marveled at their energy, which seemed to feed off the audience and then infuse it with even more power.

From Salon May 29, 2026

Luke carried it into the house, where we marveled at its soft plumage and pitiless talons.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

And in May 2025 Trump sounded more than a little envious of his Arab hosts as he praised the marble of Qatar's royal palace as "perfecto" and marvelled at Saudi Arabia's architecture.

From Barron's Jul. 7, 2026

"I can make out all the letters of the alphabet, even the smallest ones," he marvelled, pointing to his phone screen.

From Barron's May 27, 2026

And whilst you may have marvelled at the Cold Moon earlier in December, a fourth consecutive supermoon is on its way in early January.

From BBC Dec. 6, 2025

Maher, a crochety liberal-leaning comic who has grown more crochety and less liberal as societal norms have passed him by, marvelled at the fact that he could make the commander-in-chief laugh.

From Salon Apr. 22, 2025

Proud and tall he seemed, though the hair that flowed beneath his high helm was like snow; and many marvelled at him and took heart to see him unbent and unafraid.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Beyond marveling over these kingdoms, we can learn a lot more from them than we might expect.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 19, 2026

I’ve returned, spending time with friends, exploring neighborhoods, enjoying the parks and marveling at the lakes that seem to appear around every corner.

From Salon Jun. 11, 2026

“To have someone like Michael Mayer say, ‘Come play this Russian chess master,’ because there’s something in me that he believed in, that is so cool,” he said, still marveling at his good fortune.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 22, 2026

We looked at maps, got advice on where to go next and ate our sack lunches at a picnic table, marveling at those green slopes.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 10, 2026

I take the letter with shaking hands, marveling at how smart my sisters must be to be able to read and write Chinese.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan

Passengers tend to spend the first few minutes of the ride "marvelling, videoing the steering wheel moving on its own, taking selfies", Fischer said.

From Barron's Jun. 24, 2026

Australian tourist Olivia Martell-Groves went all in for the seasonal experience, and donned a flower-printed kimono while marvelling at the flowers.

From Barron's Mar. 30, 2026

"We were all just marvelling at her serve. I think it is absolutely beautiful and the best in the women's game."

From BBC Jan. 31, 2026

His own style, which is to say his mind, was compulsively metaphorical, gorgeously maximal, enough so to make him worry about “an implicit marvelling at myself as expressor.”

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 10, 2025

Then she'd made a Masterji Thakur question list: Could he give her more books on spice marvelling?

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton




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