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Recent Examples of stunningly
The high-resolution imagery reveals a stunningly diverse landscape of snowy valleys threaded with a vein-like network of mountain peaks, around which sit the venues of the 2026 Winter Olympic Games.
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Anthony Wood, Space.com, 10 Feb. 2026
The last upset with a larger spread was the 2007 season when the Pats (again) were favored by a massive 12 points only to stunningly lose to the Giants.
—Miami Herald, 5 Feb. 2026
Moreover, in texture and sweep, production designer Cary White and director of photography Douglas Milsome have stunningly captured the look and feel of the frontier of fable and dream, as enveloping a vision as realized by Benjamin West.
—Miles Beller, HollywoodReporter, 4 Feb. 2026
Listen to our Greatest Pop Stars podcast discussion about Bad Bunny’s stunningly full year here, and find the rest of our updating top 10 list with all our corresponding essays and pods here.
—Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 30 Jan. 2026
Its stagnant population challenge is really about the stunningly few Americans who relocate to California.
—Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 30 Jan. 2026
Monticello is stunningly beautiful.
—Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026
Is there another book at once so good and so bad, so thrilling and so boring, so authentic to the currents of the soul and so hideously contrived, so stunningly patrolled by dreamlike visions and so crushed by its own intellectual baggage?
—James Parker, The Atlantic, 27 Jan. 2026
The root cause of the disappointing guidance — a reduction in manufacturing capacity ahead of a big increase in demand for Intel’s central processing units — strikes me as a stunningly bad strategic decision.
—Peter Cohan, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
Anthony Wood, Space.com, 10 Feb. 2026
The last upset with a larger spread was the 2007 season when the Pats (again) were favored by a massive 12 points only to stunningly lose to the Giants.
—Miami Herald, 5 Feb. 2026
Moreover, in texture and sweep, production designer Cary White and director of photography Douglas Milsome have stunningly captured the look and feel of the frontier of fable and dream, as enveloping a vision as realized by Benjamin West.
—Miles Beller, HollywoodReporter, 4 Feb. 2026
Listen to our Greatest Pop Stars podcast discussion about Bad Bunny’s stunningly full year here, and find the rest of our updating top 10 list with all our corresponding essays and pods here.
—Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 30 Jan. 2026
Its stagnant population challenge is really about the stunningly few Americans who relocate to California.
—Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 30 Jan. 2026
Monticello is stunningly beautiful.
—Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026
Is there another book at once so good and so bad, so thrilling and so boring, so authentic to the currents of the soul and so hideously contrived, so stunningly patrolled by dreamlike visions and so crushed by its own intellectual baggage?
—James Parker, The Atlantic, 27 Jan. 2026
The root cause of the disappointing guidance — a reduction in manufacturing capacity ahead of a big increase in demand for Intel’s central processing units — strikes me as a stunningly bad strategic decision.
—Peter Cohan, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stunningly
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Ironically enough, on the opposite end, Seattle has drafted amazingly at the non-QB positions but brought in their Super Bowl QB via free agency.—
Doug Kyed,
Boston Herald,
8 Feb. 2026
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Donovan Mitchell played amazingly.—
Janis Carr,
Oc Register,
5 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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The astonishingly talented cast of that proto-Brat Pack film included Ralph Macchio, Matt Dillon, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez and Tom Cruise, all still early in their careers.—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Feb. 2026
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The Rangers are astonishingly bad right now and did the Penguins a favor by sitting Artemi Panarin out.—
Josh Yohe,
New York Times,
1 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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Bringing a vision to life Bad Bunny’s halftime show performance featured more than 300 dancers, multiple moving stages and, most surprisingly, a real wedding.—
Itzel Luna,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Feb. 2026
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Vionic Sonora Boot Make every travel outfit look effortlessly cool in the knee-high Vionic Sonora Boots, a silhouette currently dominating winter shoe styles and one that is surprisingly fit for travel.—
Julia Morlino,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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To Dallas’ astoundingly great luck, the arrival and rise of Cooper Flagg has been a bright ray of hope and excitement, but with Doncic back in the building the air was thick with gloom, regret and, yes, ongoing anger.—
Brad Townsend,
Dallas Morning News,
31 Jan. 2026
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Still, anything short of a shutout from Minter’s defense wasn’t going to win Sunday in a game where the Chargers’ only score was a 21-yard field goal in the second quarter – an astoundingly poor showing, offensively.—
Mirjam Swanson,
Oc Register,
13 Jan. 2026
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Bodyman centers on a violent power struggle that unfolds during a family Christmas gathering after an eccentric billionaire unexpectedly transfers control of his private military company to his longtime bodyguard, played by Jonas, instead of to his adult children.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Feb. 2026
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What happened next is what makes the Olympics so unexpectedly compelling.—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
10 Feb. 2026
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