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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.

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.

Forbes said she listened with "absolute astonishment" to reports that the UK government wanted to cut the recruitment of overseas care workers.

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You find yourself laughing over a montage of fresh-faced zoomers trying their hand at lyrics like “You can never quarantine the past,” and then you might admit, with equal astonishment, that it actually sounds great.

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

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