as in buried
to defeat by a large margin
the chess prodigy completely blew away the reigning world champion
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Recent Examples of blown away
The other 800 were stalled in approval purgatory or were paper copies that had literally blown away.
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Jerry Dolinsky, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
Bourque knows Patrick Roy from their time together on the Avalanche, and said that the now-former Islanders coach was blown away by Schaefer.
—Peter Baugh, New York Times, 14 May 2026
Pichai was particularly blown away when DeepMind’s AI system AlphaGo played a brilliant, novel move in the strategy board game Go against champion Lee Sedol in 2016, revealing that AI could think creatively and beyond mere mimicry.
—Andrew R. Chow, Time, 6 May 2026
Officials say they were blown away by the community's willingness to participate in this exercise.
—Michael Abeyta, CBS News, 2 May 2026
Mythos has blown away just about every benchmark of AI progress, including completing complex coding tasks and solving graduate-level problems across a range of subjects.
—Rogé Karma, The Atlantic, 1 May 2026
Thankfully, that’s what I was most blown away by.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 30 Apr. 2026
Prince Jackson, son of late pop superstar Michael Jackson, confessed he was blown away by his cousin’s performance in the upcoming biopic about his father.
—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 25 Apr. 2026
Lee says she was actually blown away by the texture and quality of the brand’s repair treatment.
—Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 21 Apr. 2026
Jerry Dolinsky, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
Bourque knows Patrick Roy from their time together on the Avalanche, and said that the now-former Islanders coach was blown away by Schaefer.
—Peter Baugh, New York Times, 14 May 2026
Pichai was particularly blown away when DeepMind’s AI system AlphaGo played a brilliant, novel move in the strategy board game Go against champion Lee Sedol in 2016, revealing that AI could think creatively and beyond mere mimicry.
—Andrew R. Chow, Time, 6 May 2026
Officials say they were blown away by the community's willingness to participate in this exercise.
—Michael Abeyta, CBS News, 2 May 2026
Mythos has blown away just about every benchmark of AI progress, including completing complex coding tasks and solving graduate-level problems across a range of subjects.
—Rogé Karma, The Atlantic, 1 May 2026
Thankfully, that’s what I was most blown away by.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 30 Apr. 2026
Prince Jackson, son of late pop superstar Michael Jackson, confessed he was blown away by his cousin’s performance in the upcoming biopic about his father.
—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 25 Apr. 2026
Lee says she was actually blown away by the texture and quality of the brand’s repair treatment.
—Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 21 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blown away
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Even after hundreds of years of excavations, around a third of Pompeii still lies buried beneath volcanic ash from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.—
Preeti Jha,
semafor.com,
22 May 2026
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When the counter is buried, there’s nowhere to chop.—
Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Sacbee.com,
22 May 2026
Verb
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The people who bombed the interviews were the ones who developed a hypothesis and held it to the last breath because developing strategy is inherently fuzzy at first.—
Lynn Comp,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
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Most of the miniseries outside of a few have bombed.—
Zach Dean OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
15 May 2026
Verb
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There were no footprints leading in and out of the buildings, though with the storm’s intensity any trace of them would have been snowed under within minutes.—
Ariane Lange,
Sacbee.com,
20 Feb. 2026
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