- present participle of astonish.
astonishing
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Appeared in the November 6, 2025, print edition as 'A Museum’s Astonishing Arrival'.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 5, 2025
Rainfall forecasts: Astonishing amounts of rain were forecast across urban L.A.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2024
Astonishing measurement precision is needed because although the waves come from colossal sources, their signal is tiny - just fractions of the width of an atom.
From BBC • Jan. 25, 2024
The work was partially funded by a biotech start up called Astonishing Labs, which aims to harness the technology to treat neurological disease and nerve and spinal cord injuries.
From Science Magazine • Nov. 29, 2023
Astonishing to think that these tiny pods rolling around in the palm of my hand mean the difference between life and death.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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