awe-struck
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During the nearly seven-hour lunar flyby, astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover, Jeremy Hansen and Reid Weisman gave near-literary descriptions of lunar surface features and left scientists in Houston awe-struck.
From Barron's • Apr. 11, 2026
All the voices, from ground control to awe-struck passengers, were female.
From Salon • Apr. 17, 2025
Close behind was walking through the museum in Cooperstown, N.Y., with an awe-struck Dave Niehaus and his wife, Marilyn, the day before he received the Frick Award at the Hall of Fame inductions.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 10, 2023
When Cormac McCarthy’s manual typewriter sold at auction in 2009, the awe-struck book dealer Glenn Horowitz remarked that it was “as if Mount Rushmore was carved with a Swiss Army knife.”
From New York Times • May 22, 2023
Antiphates, no less bewildered than his subjects, hesitated half awe-struck on the threshold of the young girl's chamber, which he now for the first time proposed to enter.
From Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories by Morgan, Louisa
