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Investment in artificial intelligence continues to astonish amid a technological arms race.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2025

Maggie Smith never failed to illuminate and astonish.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2024

Bouden added that “I have a lot of hope that Tunisia is going to get better and better, and it will accomplish things that will probably astonish you in the coming months.”

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 19, 2023

But what would astonish — and mystify — earlier generations of U.S.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 27, 2021

Their presence in Africa would astonish us, if the presence of Indonesian people on Madagascar had not already alerted us to Africa’s prehistoric Asian connection.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Throughout Mr. Stob’s narrative, their success astonishes onlookers and converts skeptics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

What always astonishes me about your letters is their length My God, their length!

From Salon ● Feb. 9, 2025

"Even today, the story of my father and my mother, while giving me much pain, astonishes me still," Blouin said.

From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2025

“It astonishes me that no American male singer sings with a full voice anymore. Where have all the tenors gone?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2022

Even now, a fact as ordinary, as obvious, as this astonishes him.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

Fielder doesn’t believe her and is often troubled and astonished by what she says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

Then, in a scene in which Misty demands she be allowed to finish an audition, she flashes into someone else in a bit of pure craft that leaves those in the room astonished.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

Isaiah Berlin called Alexander Herzen “a Russian Voltaire,” who astonished his 19th- century audiences with a “prodigal opulence of intellect.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

First reported by Derry Now, external, Laura said doctors were astonished when she was born with the condition in 1998.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

I was again astonished, for he addressed himself to the question with the impartiality of the completest sanity; he even took himself as an example when he mentioned certain things.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

Blame it on Mozart, whose astonishing genius was already self-evident at age 5, when he wrote his first opus , and whose father Leopold controlled his life and career.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

After more than two centuries of astonishing American growth, this mostly forgotten act completed the nation’s current borders.

From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2026

Holmes herself shied from the public eye, making the surprise release of the documentary "You Can See Everything" all the more astonishing when it debuted to high praise at the Telluride Film Festival in September.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

The Ancient Tree inventory lead at the Woodland Trust, May Chemais, said it was an "astonishing and bizarre" tree that had endured a lot.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

How their needles kept up with their tongues was a mystery to me, but I thought I’d call on Mrs. Payne and see if she had anything astonishing to show me.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney