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For now, Chambliss is content piling up plays that astound football fans across the country—except for those who know him best.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 6, 2026

Train punctuality in Germany is appalling - worse than in the UK, which will astound weary British commuters.

From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2025

And many of these events occurred relatively recently, showing that the field of physics continues to astound us.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 27, 2023

The pusillanimity of American corporations on this subject continues to astound.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 26, 2021

Clearly the palace estate had been designed to draw in visitors and astound them with the splendor and glory of the Golden Crescent.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

Having seen “The Drama” in theaters twice, what astounds me is witnessing the audience’s open-mindedness.

From Salon ● Apr. 9, 2026

What astounds, though, are the sculpture’s extraordinary eyes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2025

“Shrinking” is more intimate, a show about hard emotions and hanging out that happens to star a screen legend whose presence still astounds everyone.

From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2023

His work ethic still astounds those around him.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 14, 2022

That his life has been so wholly redirected astounds him.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

“Ten men in front of goal, aim for a nil-nil draw. That’s going to make the first round low quality. Fans are going to be astounded by how poor the soccer is.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026

Coumarianos adds: “I’ve walked a few clients through all the expenses they’re paying on insurance products for retirement savings, and they’ve been astounded, negatively, at how much their salesperson has extracted from them.”

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 20, 2026

Mississippi has astounded the nation, but the pressure is on to take the next step.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 8, 2026

At the British embassy in Vilnius, Lithuania, he was taken seriously by MI6, which was astounded by the wealth of information the former archivist had to offer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 6, 2026

“What a charming coincidence I” Nately was too astounded even to hear him.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

They popped up a swarm of short-lift attackers to map out Hugging Face’s network and took an astounding 17,000 actions during the hack, far more than a human would.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

But doctors were ultimately able to save her leg – something she calls "astounding".

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026

For Becerra, the strong poll results indicate an astounding turnaround for a campaign that appeared all but dead just weeks ago.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

Sandisk has soared an astounding 3,218% over the last 12 months as its solid-state drives, or eSSDs, have become a crucial component in artificial-intelligence data centers.

From Barron's ● May 19, 2026

The varsity’s astounding come-from-behind victory that day was historic in its scope and drama.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown