flabbergast
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Though I generally stuck to the main questline and sidequests, the optional tombs that I sampled were diverting puzzle boxes that sometimes stumped me but didn’t flabbergast me.
From Washington Post • Sep. 10, 2018
Sections on the possibility of artificial consciousness would flabbergast even Philip K. Dick.
From New York Times • Aug. 16, 2018
A feature on jargon in "soccer" - the American terms that leave Brits reeling and the British terms that flabbergast Americans - generated a huge response from readers.
From BBC • Jun. 1, 2013
She proceeded to flabbergast the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association by refusing to play her semi-final match on Sunday.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is a pity fools are prone to scribble, Such pigmy rhymesters as sincerely yours, Who flabbergast their nursery-maids and dribble All down their literary pinafores.
From The Minstrel A Collection of Poems by Amott, Lennox
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