as in to amaze
to make a strong impression on (someone) with something unexpected
your decision to suddenly quit your job flabbergasts me
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Recent Examples of flabbergast
For Perry, these operations felt like the final step to closing out a weight loss journey that flabbergasted millions online.
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Angela Yang, NBC News, 13 Feb. 2025
Gates, who once held Musk’s current position as the world’s wealthiest person, seems to find this hard-right turn flabbergasting.
—Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Jan. 2025
Dozens of producer friends wrote to one another, flabbergasted that such a thing could happen.
—Cathy Schulman, Deadline, 25 Jan. 2025
As the rational and oft-flabbergasted physician who narrates Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories, Watson is the looking glass into Holmes’s intellectual superpowers.
—Rory Doherty, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2025
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Angela Yang, NBC News, 13 Feb. 2025
Gates, who once held Musk’s current position as the world’s wealthiest person, seems to find this hard-right turn flabbergasting.
—Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Jan. 2025
Dozens of producer friends wrote to one another, flabbergasted that such a thing could happen.
—Cathy Schulman, Deadline, 25 Jan. 2025
As the rational and oft-flabbergasted physician who narrates Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories, Watson is the looking glass into Holmes’s intellectual superpowers.
—Rory Doherty, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for flabbergast
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What amazes me is that after Covid, a lot of the business became transactional.—
Jennifer Leigh Parker,
Forbes,
16 Mar. 2025
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This isn't the first time a thrift store find has amazed the internet.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Vogue: What has surprised you most about your parenting journey?—
Emma Specter,
Vogue,
17 Apr. 2025
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There were no big Heat rotation surprises to begin the postseason.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
17 Apr. 2025
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One father, a lawyer who teaches constitutional law, was shocked by the university’s roughshod treatment of his son and students and the ease with which administrators disregarded their rights.—
Wynn Smiley,
Baltimore Sun,
24 Apr. 2025
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The manhunt The slaying of Pascal shocked in the Upper Florida Keys community, which, while certainly not immune from crime, rarely experiences brutal murders.—
David Goodhue,
Miami Herald,
24 Apr. 2025
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Licence utilisation among the initial user base exceeded 80 percent, a figure that astonished even the bank’s AI leadership team.—
Zennon Kapron,
Forbes.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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Hotel manager Anders Reinertsen, who oversees operations of staterooms and public areas, told me he was astonished to be able to hear kayakers paddling while sailing through Geirangerfjord because the ship is so quiet.—
Blane Bachelor,
AFAR Media,
9 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Broadus stunned in a plush pink coat and matching fedora.—
Edward Segarra,
USA Today,
22 Apr. 2025
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In February 2013, Benedict stunned the Catholic world by becoming the first pope in six centuries to retire.—
Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
21 Apr. 2025
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That aural reminder punctuates my days now, and frequently startles me.—
Rob Mank,
Christian Science Monitor,
2 Apr. 2025
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But the website also has messages about residents being startled, as Catanzaro was, by stealthy contractors with air guns.—
Bill Kearney,
Sun Sentinel,
21 Mar. 2025
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“Flabbergast.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flabbergast. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.
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