astoundingly
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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You want to believe that some of the astoundingly unpleasant people are putting on an act so they can get on TV.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026
“That was an astoundingly bad moment,” Mr Epner said.
From BBC • May 30, 2024
If her latest is somehow discovered 2,000 years from now among the ruins of what we once called civilization, it would be an astoundingly flattering portrait of us.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2024
The details of the puppet set, by the way, are astoundingly precise.
From Salon • Dec. 27, 2023
Today he came to my side with one of the drummers of the Regiment, which sturdy youth I have seen perform most astoundingly in the course of our dances.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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