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awe-inspiring

[aw-in-spahyuhr-ing] / ˈɔ ɪnˌspaɪər ɪŋ /


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“It’s beautiful and awe inspiring, and the acoustics are really amazing,” he said, “but our whole thing was finding venues that were big enough to hold a lot of people.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2023

Australian singer Nick Cave has said he is attending the Coronation for "the stupefying spectacular, the awe inspiring".

From BBC • May 6, 2023

“It’s funny to take something which should be awe inspiring and serious and grandiose, and doodling bums in the corner of it,” Brooker said.

From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2023

Lewis’s ability to forgive those who physically assaulted him in the 1960s — and in so doing betrayed American democracy — is both awe inspiring and complicates that movement’s legacy in important ways.

From Washington Post • Sep. 29, 2021

From the outside, the palace’s destruction was almost awe inspiring.

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley




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