gobsmacking
Americanadjective
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I’m back from a quick trip to Slovenia with my daughter and am mentally still in that fairytale Alps land of castles and gobsmacking lake views.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
The fact that those are shared frustrations of the vast majority of our people is, frankly, gobsmacking, and our politics needs to be about solving that.
From Salon ● May 2, 2025
"It is gobsmacking they were so blatant in trying to blame others, when it was one fatal mistake they made," she said.
From BBC ● May 9, 2024
But yeah, it was gobsmacking that people went out in those numbers to see it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2023
His effort to explain himself on that press tour was, to lawyers, gobsmacking, and came over the reported and emphatic objections of his own lawyers at the time.
From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2023
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