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"You know, 'it mustn't happen again. We cannot inflict this on our children'. There was astonishment, a shock realisation that the war had been so much more horrible than anyone had imagined it could be."

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He had a look of astonishment on his face and three empty Red Bull cans in his backpack.

The German food and agriculture ministry told the BBC last year that it had taken note of the Turkish bid "with some astonishment".

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I finished both movies double-checking my watch in astonishment that they really were under an hour and a half.

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For real — not like the astonishment Zoë Kravitz feigned in a Golden Globes-set episode of “The Studio,” faking disbelief at the podium when she knew all along that she was going to win.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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