astonish
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Investment in artificial intelligence continues to astonish amid a technological arms race.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2025
No matter the general state of the project she was in, Smith never failed to illuminate, astonish and entertain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2024
For a half-century, the German artist Ursula Schultze-Bluhm made work that could astonish viewers.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2023
Bouden added that “I have a lot of hope that Tunisia is going to get better and better, and it will accomplish things that will probably astonish you in the coming months.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 19, 2023
It used to astonish us that everyone here has so many children: six or eight or nine.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
Throughout Mr. Stob’s narrative, their success astonishes onlookers and converts skeptics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
"Even today, the story of my father and my mother, while giving me much pain, astonishes me still," Blouin said.
From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2025
The architectural wonder of writer-director Brady Corbet’s 215-minute postwar immigrant epic “The Brutalist” astonishes onscreen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 26, 2024
“I’d like to do something with them like the canvases of the sunflowers because it astonishes me that no one has done them as I see them.”
From New York Times ● May 11, 2023
I love dusk; it always astonishes me that something so beautiful happens every single day.
From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez
The coaches were astonished at how quickly he picked up the playbook.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
Like most immigrants, I was astonished when I first came to America by the range of choices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
You can see Salonen, who gave Josefowicz the support to be brazen, mouth to her astonished wows!
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
On Friday, the prime minister said she had been astonished by Trump's initial claim that she "begged" for a photo.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
I was again astonished, for he addressed himself to the question with the impartiality of the completest sanity; he even took himself as an example when he mentioned certain things.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
What looked like a casual swing of Erling Haaland's left boot was in fact a perfectly placed finish with astonishing power to crown a match-winning performance for Norway against Brazil in the last 16.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Since then, they have spread into an astonishing range of habitats and lifestyles.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
Jenrick said: "Frankly I find it astonishing that, just a short period after he was elected to Parliament, the authorities, the government, chose to massively downgrade his security".
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
There is no doubt astonishing science under way.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
In 1986, in an astonishing experiment, Nüsslein-Volhard’s students learned to prick a normal fly embryo with a minuscule needle, withdraw a droplet of liquid from its head, and transplant it into the headless mutants.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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"Julius Caesar" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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