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Conservative MSP Stephen Kerr said Lowe's comments were "astonishingly insensitive and profoundly disrespectful to the victims of Dunblane".

From BBC • Jul. 9, 2026

“They’re astonishingly good at recognizing visual patterns, but they really don’t have any common sense,” said David Doermann, a computer-science and engineering professor at the University at Buffalo.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

Yet we know astonishingly little about their conditions.

From MarketWatch • May 5, 2026

"We live in the information age, yet we store our knowledge in media that are astonishingly short-lived," says Alexander Kirnbauer.

From Science Daily • Mar. 29, 2026

She wasn’t in any of the astonishingly large staterooms.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi