marvel

Gareth Bale, the Welsh marvel, who has more Champions League winner's medals than the rest of this list combined.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

When I was young, I used to marvel at countries whose debt-to-GDP ratios exceeded 120%.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026

With AI images bleeding into the real world at a pace none of us can keep up with, there’s human marvel to behold in Anderson’s madness.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

While Heyward would marvel at how close Freeman was willing to cut it, Freeman would give Heyward grief for how long he’d take to get ready.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

Most everyone in the neighborhood has stepped out of their home to marvel at our light—like moths entranced by the lick of a hot campfire flame.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

“From the first charge to Darius’s escape,” Mr. Richardson marvels, “no more than two hours had passed. But in that time the world had changed.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Arranged in three sections based on his interests as an observer—plants, labor conditions and architecture—the show centers on his wanderings and the marvels that captivated him forever after.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

After the delays and cost increases, these projects have not exactly delivered reliable marvels.

From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026

One of the marvels of this novel is how effortlessly such sentences land, despite being honed to perfection.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

Dede marvels at Minerva’s facility in arranging everyone’s lives.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

In 1933, Fortune magazine marveled that Ford was “as much interested in the soya bean as he is in the V-8” engine.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

And this week, as we marveled at AI’s ability to do math, we also wondered if AI is going to destroy humanity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

When Molly Taylor started taking Mounjaro in the fall of 2024, she marveled at the speed of results.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

While the “Heartstopper” team expected the series to resonate with younger audiences, they have been particularly moved by the reactions of older queer viewers, who have marveled at the strides in LGBTQ+ representation onscreen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

“It ate 1020 bar stock, burned it out like it was cardboard,” I marveled.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

And in May 2025 Trump sounded more than a little envious of his Arab hosts as he praised the marble of Qatar's royal palace as "perfecto" and marvelled at Saudi Arabia's architecture.

From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026

"I can make out all the letters of the alphabet, even the smallest ones," he marvelled, pointing to his phone screen.

From Barron's ● May 27, 2026

Maher, a crochety liberal-leaning comic who has grown more crochety and less liberal as societal norms have passed him by, marvelled at the fact that he could make the commander-in-chief laugh.

From Salon ● Apr. 22, 2025

They marvelled that a cactus was regrowing next to where their SUV had melted.

From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2025

Miss Honey marvelled at the child's lack of conceit and self-consciousness.

From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl

We would be sipping ice-cold spritzes at cafés overlooking the Mediterranean, frolicking down cobblestone streets lined with charming boutiques, and marveling at the frescoes and marble sculptures adorning grand cathedrals.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026

In my time as U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, I would often find myself exploring Riyadh, marveling at the stunning changes since I first visited the kingdom in 2011.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026

She and Justin held their daughter for a few precious moments as her heartbeat stilled, marveling at her perfect tiny fingers and toes and whispering private words of love.

From Salon ● May 27, 2026

We looked at maps, got advice on where to go next and ate our sack lunches at a picnic table, marveling at those green slopes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026

I take mine off and try them on, marveling as the room loses its shape and tilts on its ear.

From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina

Passengers tend to spend the first few minutes of the ride "marvelling, videoing the steering wheel moving on its own, taking selfies", Fischer said.

From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026

Australian tourist Olivia Martell-Groves went all in for the seasonal experience, and donned a flower-printed kimono while marvelling at the flowers.

From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 2026

His own style, which is to say his mind, was compulsively metaphorical, gorgeously maximal, enough so to make him worry about “an implicit marvelling at myself as expressor.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025

Musk has responded to the protests by sharing a video on X - the social media platform he owns - of a Cybertruck customer in Texas marvelling at the vehicle's full self-driving mode.

From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2025

It was the man with owl-eyed glasses whom I had found marvelling over Gatsby's books in the library one night three months before.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald