flabbergasted
Example Sentences
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It was a scene that left residents of this pricey, palm-lined Santa Monica neighborhood flabbergasted.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2026
Jansen recalled feeling "flabbergasted" at Marrero's notes, which he said featured an array of broad and unrelated clinical observations — a "diarrhea of symptoms".
From BBC • Jan. 10, 2026
Yet the news that inflation could be worse is hardly comforting for millions of Americans still flabbergasted at the prices of necessities like food, housing and insurance.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025
The doctor said he was “just flabbergasted with the allegations that don’t seem congruent with what i saw that day.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 27, 2025
When the teacher reports that Harold has not been turning in his homework, Ms. McAllister clearly is flabbergasted, but all she says is, “He did it at home.”
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
