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Recent Examples of astonishingly
Here, within an astonishingly small radius, are housed such digital titans as OpenAI, Meta, Alphabet, Apple, Intel, Nvidia, Oracle, Salesforce, Adobe and HP.
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Tyler Johnson, Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2025
Cosmologists now argue the universe’s primordial magnetic fields were astonishingly weak, comparable to the brain’s tiny signals, yet still thread today’s cosmic web.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
Tulloch is one of Silicon Valley’s cutting-edge AI researchers who have lately attracted astonishingly lucrative job offers from legacy tech companies trying to lure them away from their AI-native startups.
—Dave Smith, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2025
The production process is astonishingly simple.
—Akiko Katayama, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
But for the first time since Boy George sprang for eyeliner and a dress, the British pop scene came astonishingly alive in the past year.
—Ew Staff Published, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2025
But the film’s wild, icy and rural visuals, captured grandly by cinematographer Tyson Perkins, are astonishingly gorgeous to meditate in.
—Tomris Laffly, Variety, 14 Aug. 2025
But to close out the show, the band launched into the Bon Jovi fist-pumper, which, astonishingly, turns 40 next year.
—David Browne, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2025
And astonishingly, most of the crowd obliged, jumping and dancing with their hands in the air.
—Billboard Korea, Billboard, 4 Aug. 2025
Tyler Johnson, Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2025
Cosmologists now argue the universe’s primordial magnetic fields were astonishingly weak, comparable to the brain’s tiny signals, yet still thread today’s cosmic web.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
Tulloch is one of Silicon Valley’s cutting-edge AI researchers who have lately attracted astonishingly lucrative job offers from legacy tech companies trying to lure them away from their AI-native startups.
—Dave Smith, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2025
The production process is astonishingly simple.
—Akiko Katayama, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
But for the first time since Boy George sprang for eyeliner and a dress, the British pop scene came astonishingly alive in the past year.
—Ew Staff Published, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2025
But the film’s wild, icy and rural visuals, captured grandly by cinematographer Tyson Perkins, are astonishingly gorgeous to meditate in.
—Tomris Laffly, Variety, 14 Aug. 2025
But to close out the show, the band launched into the Bon Jovi fist-pumper, which, astonishingly, turns 40 next year.
—David Browne, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2025
And astonishingly, most of the crowd obliged, jumping and dancing with their hands in the air.
—Billboard Korea, Billboard, 4 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for astonishingly
Adverb
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Her mornings, though, are surprisingly low-key.—
Conçetta Ciarlo,
Vogue,
19 Sep. 2025
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Over 15,000 Amazon shoppers have awarded this travel backpack five stars due to its surprisingly roomy interior.—
Amelia McBride,
Travel + Leisure,
18 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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The result is an amazingly fluent-seeming AI that interacts akin to a human type of conversation.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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The Pittsburgh Pirates’ right fielder was poetry on the diamond, a five-tool player who helped his team to two World Series championships but amazingly was a bit underrated at the time.—
Jim Alexander,
Oc Register,
13 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Nearly 25 years later, North is just as bad as Ebert wrote, an astoundingly wrongheaded concept executed in the most mealy-mouthed, limp way possible.—
Will Leitch,
Vulture,
13 Sep. 2025
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Ruffalo's fallen federal agent is Tom Brandis, a former priest who is reassigned from the field to man career fair booths after an astoundingly terrible family tragedy leaves him a broken man.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
7 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Over the last 15 years, health data has mostly become electronic, compute power has expanded 360-fold and artificial intelligence has become stunningly powerful.—
Dan Riskin,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Husseini had proven stunningly corrupt.—
Sean Durns,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Following on from last year's 34th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony at MIT, the 35th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize night took place at Boston University on September 18, celebrating real research with delightfully sideways investigative questions – and unexpectedly useful answers.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
19 Sep. 2025
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Someone could waltz in unexpectedly, challenging you to grow and live up to your potential.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
19 Sep. 2025
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“Astonishingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/astonishingly. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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