astoundingly
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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Picking the flags for our new school was the hardest part of an astoundingly easy process.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
“The percentage of workers who have either received lung transplants or who are awaiting lung transplants is astoundingly high.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
More important, it is evidence of how astoundingly ill-informed they are about the role they play in American life and how and why it has changed so dramatically.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
Both of these conclusions are astoundingly backward, which may be why the majority did not try to flesh them out: to describe the majority’s reasoning is to refute it.
From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2025
It was owned by people from Tochigi-ken prefecture who had done astoundingly well for themselves: the women among them wore silk crepe kimonos and scarlet, cork-soled slippers.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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