gobsmacking
Americanadjective
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The result in Washington was even more gobsmacking.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
"It's a gobsmacking sum," a senior figure involved in running successive election campaigns for one of the big parties tells me.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
The best thing about the journey—even better than the gobsmacking views through Colorado—was spending time with fellow passengers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025
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
But yeah, it was gobsmacking that people went out in those numbers to see it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2023
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