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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

If Darwin were alive today the insect world would delight and astound him with its impressive verification of his theories of the survival of the fittest.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

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

From Salon ● Apr. 9, 2026

He added that "the power with which nature comes back astounds biologists", stressing how "extraordinarily resilient" animals, fish, sea life and plants are "if you just stop doing bad things to them."

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2025

Drifting between boiling anger and crushing regret, O’Brien’s delivery of a monologue to the ghost of Rocky astounds for its insides-bearing rawness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2025

So fast to learn, Cormie’s memory also regularly astounds her, Colvin said.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 21, 2024

That his life has been so wholly redirected astounds him.

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

In inner-city Sydney, Australia, first-time mum Paige Stewart was astounded as she watched her children's progress with the programme.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

Steve Gutshall of Murrells Inlet, was left astounded by Graham’s debate performance and felt that plenty of others were too.

From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026

"We were astounded and overjoyed, actually," Haigwood said.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026

As someone who used to write code, I’m astounded by the ability simply to talk to some AI bot named Claude, which then spits out pretty decent software.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026

When the incident with Sister Monroe, which we always called simply “the incident,” had taken place, we had been too astounded to laugh.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

Felix Salmon, Elizabeth Spiers, and Emily Peck discuss what this deal signals about the astounding amounts of money being thrown around the relatively niche market of A.I. investment.

From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026

The numbers involved in AI are truly astounding.

From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026

Fulton lured 40 friends and relatives on board and chugged all the way to Albany and back, covering 300 miles in 62 hours—an astounding pace of nearly 5 miles an hour.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

This astounding dilemma is brought to you by the Angels, and their combination of a consistent focus on affordability and a consistently bad team.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

Yet taken as a whole, the week passed with astounding speed.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood