Example Sentences

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A surgeon who inserted the microchips in five patients at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London says the results of the international trial are "astounding".

From BBC • Oct. 20, 2025

"The ways that animals can adapt to environmental pressures are astounding and have continued to inspire humans to push the boundaries of bio-inspired design," Swierk said.

From Science Daily • Mar. 5, 2024

The interplay of chemical, physical and electrical signals in the cells and their cooperative response are astounding.

From Scientific American • Oct. 1, 2023

Other versions of such characters are astounding enough in their bravado that the harm done by their lies is almost completely outstripped by the extremity of their self-deception.

From Salon • Mar. 11, 2023

If one filters out banal and impersonal events, most of what’s left are astounding aberrations and coincidences, and one’s mind begins to resemble the headlines of supermarket tabloids.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos