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astounding

[uh-stoun-ding] / əˈstaʊn dɪŋ /


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He played on most days, for an astounding six sets over three hours, with little regard to the weather.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

"You had an astounding mortality rate of about 30 percent per voyage," Quezon said.

From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026

“We don’t know what the ultimate ecosystem looks like, but AI should deliver astounding productivity at some point,” Kim Caughey Forrest, founder and chief investment officer at Bokeh Capital Partners, told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 28, 2026

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum praised the Mexican army and Zapatero's faith and resilience, which she said had made the "astounding rescue" possible.

From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026

While human evolution was crawling at its usual snail’s pace, the human imagination was building astounding networks of mass cooperation, unlike any other ever seen on earth.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari




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