dumbfound

Any other result but a four or five nil win for the Gunners would be catastrophic for Arsenal and dumbfound us all.

From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2024

It will defy assumption after assumption, dazzle and dumbfound, stun and stir, swerve and swerve back almost as if cackling.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 18, 2022

Lavelle’s ability to dumbfound defenses will be crucial to the U.S. team’s play for the next four years and beyond.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2019

Like a telepathic infant swinging for the piñata with deathly precision, Chelsea has continued to dumbfound with its ability to overcome seemingly impossible tasks.

From New York Times ● May 17, 2012

That, he assured his imperial brother, would amaze and dumbfound the entire universe more than anything else that could possibly be conceived.

From The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe: William II, Germany; Francis Joseph, Austria-Hungary, Volume I. (of 2) by Mme. la Marquise de Fontenoy

“There is such a misunderstanding of hemp, it just dumbfounds me,” explains Jon Hanson, an organic farmer in Marquette, who says he’d love to grow hemp on his 480-acre farm.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 12, 2016

He refuses to forgive 'the Countess' for her infidelity until the real Countess enters and dumbfounds him.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 14, 2012

"It dumbfounds me," said Linda, "to have Eileen do this for me."

From Her Father's Daughter by Gene Stratton-Porter

"The idea of a puddin'-thief offering a man a present dumbfounds me, as the saying goes."

From The Magic Pudding Being the Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and His Friends Bill Barnacle & Sam Sawnoff by Norman Lindsay

Huckabee, however, appeared dumbfounded: “I’m totally unable to process what you’re trying to get at.”

From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2026

American skater Nathan Chen, the Beijing men's individual gold medallist, was dumbfounded, saying: "What a shock".

From Barron's ● Feb. 14, 2026

The South Park police force is dumbfounded by the videos, believing they are real.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2025

“I’m kind of just dumbfounded why it’s going up so much,” said Chad Smith, 51, who with his wife owns a landscaping company in Coeur d’Alene.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025

He held his hand about fourteen inches off the ground and was dumbfounded by my blank look.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

When you’re born and raised in the United States, American nationalism and English-language centrism are so deeply ingrained into the culture that watching an actor work in another tongue is dumbfounding.

From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2026

“The fact that these dumbfounding transfers in the middle of the night cause chaos, confusion, and minimizes access to legal representation does not seem to bother them one bit,” he said in a statement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2025

That was in Carnoustie in 1999 and featured one of the most dumbfounding triple bogeys ever on the 72nd hole of a major.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 22, 2023

“Frankly, it’s dumbfounding to me to hear that this is still going on even after you have advocates like Michael,” Roberts said.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 17, 2022

Beneath her fingernails, the frost makes billions of tiny diadems and coronas on the slats of the bench, a lattice of dumbfounding complexity.

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