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
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
Giving a running commentary to her husband Ray, those three matching numbers on the couple's ticket quickly became "four", then "five" and then astoundingly, the magic "six".
From BBC • Dec. 25, 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
Games like Tribe, Unreal, Quake, even the Legend of Zelda and, yes, Doom, can be astoundingly creative, challenging, and imaginative.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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