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Gareth Bale, the Welsh marvel, who has more Champions League winner's medals than the rest of this list combined.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

When I was young, I used to marvel at countries whose debt-to-GDP ratios exceeded 120%.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026

With AI images bleeding into the real world at a pace none of us can keep up with, there’s human marvel to behold in Anderson’s madness.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

While Heyward would marvel at how close Freeman was willing to cut it, Freeman would give Heyward grief for how long he’d take to get ready.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

Though we have boxes to unpack and a whole house to marvel at and clean, I can’t get enough of this grass.

From "A Step from Heaven" by An Na

More than 20 years later, Balza marvels at how popular the Japanese sneakers have become.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

Mr. Boorman marvels that film is a medium in which money is turned into light that is then turned back into money.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

After the delays and cost increases, these projects have not exactly delivered reliable marvels.

From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026

He marvels at the latest evidence of the grandchildren’s genius, like any grandfather should, and spoils them with treats and toys.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

“This is the most physical activity you’ve had in months,” she marvels.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day

He started working with a renowned quarterback guru, Jeff Christensen, who marveled at his new pupil’s obsessive work ethic as he perfected the twist of his torso and flick of his wrist.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

The writer John McPhee, who chronicled the alarmingly kinetic San Gabriels in his book “The Control of Nature,” marveled at the human stubbornness that keeps us here.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

In 1933, Fortune magazine marveled that Ford was “as much interested in the soya bean as he is in the V-8” engine.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

The scene marked a staggering shift for a man who, at the height of the pandemic, marveled at his own “unimaginable” fame.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

And as he cut himself adrift, both from them and simultaneously from that other world he had known before them, he marveled: What an awful thing the truth is, and how comforting is a lie.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

"Throughout the show," marvelled Nick Levine, external, "she skips across the stage in skyscraper heels that most drag performers would baulk at."

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

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

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

Pippin marvelled at his strength, seeing the passage that he had already forced with no other tool than his great limbs.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Kurt Sawitskas has already spent weeks analyzing the carousel’s innards, marveling at its antique nature, but also being amazed that it’s still mostly intact.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

He wandered the aisles of grocery stores marveling at the goods on sale—even if his family, which arrived with $400, couldn’t often indulge his newfound obsession with Coca-Cola.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

We would be sipping ice-cold spritzes at cafés overlooking the Mediterranean, frolicking down cobblestone streets lined with charming boutiques, and marveling at the frescoes and marble sculptures adorning grand cathedrals.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026

She and Justin held their daughter for a few precious moments as her heartbeat stilled, marveling at her perfect tiny fingers and toes and whispering private words of love.

From Salon ● May 27, 2026

His heart soared and he paddled toward her, marveling at her size and majesty.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook

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

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

There was a celebrated Royal opening in 2004 where I remember one hard-nosed journalist marvelling at what had been achieved by this "dapper wee man in a kilt".

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2025

It was the man with owl-eyed glasses whom I had found marvelling over Gatsby's books in the library one night three months before.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald