stunningly

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Recent Examples of stunningly 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 Husseini had proven stunningly corrupt. Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025 She was stunningly draped in a tan Harith Hashim ensemble, the wavy silhouette of which contrasted with how Andrew Fitzsimons styled her hair perfectly straight. Marci Robin, Allure, 11 Sep. 2025 While stunningly shot, this is no usual Franz Kafka biopic, with Holland more interested in nightmares than the who, what, when, where and why of a story. Marta Balaga, Variety, 7 Sep. 2025 Howard’s reputation for being a workmanlike filmmaker — solid, unflashy, without an easily noticeable personal style — proves to be stunningly effective in Frost/Nixon, where the actors and the script are the real stars. Will Leitch, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025 Across 12 tracks, KAYTRANADA forgoes any and all features and allows his textured, stuttering sound flow in and out of grooves, vibes and feelings, making for a stunningly cohesive dance album that’s guaranteed to keep you dancing for all of its 35 minutes. Stephen Daw, Billboard, 15 Aug. 2025 After launching Béis back in 2018, the actress and entrepreneur quickly gained status as a celeb whose business ventures actually align with their personal interests, a fact which became stunningly clear as Mitchell lit up telling Travel + Leisure about her limited-edition collection with Gap. Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 5 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stunningly
Adverb
  • The result is an amazingly fluent-seeming AI that interacts akin to a human type of conversation.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • Here, within an astonishingly small radius, are housed such digital titans as OpenAI, Meta, Alphabet, Apple, Intel, Nvidia, Oracle, Salesforce, Adobe and HP.
    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
Adverb
  • Her mornings, though, are surprisingly low-key.
    Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 19 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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“Stunningly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stunningly. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.

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