Adjective : an astonishing victory; an astonishing remark. From Dictionary.com.
Detroit, astonishingly, is still the 11th-largest city in the U.S. From Wordnik.com. [How the Crash Will Reshape America] Reference
Despite the near-freezing temperature, people are dressed in astonishingly little. From Wordnik.com. [July 25, 2004] Reference
Miller says the average investor is 'astonishingly' badly served. From Wordnik.com. [This is Money | Home]
"astonishingly," till some gentleman applied the lampblack test to his assumed mediumship, whereupon he "came to grief.". From Wordnik.com. [The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages] Reference
Which, astonishingly, the best nerdcore rappers do. From Wordnik.com. [Geeksta Rap Rising] Reference
"It was astonishingly quick and easy," Morris recalls. From Wordnik.com. [The Book On Reagan] Reference
Yet astonishingly, the CIA did nothing with this information. From Wordnik.com. [The Hijackers We Let Escape] Reference
But as infidels go, Harris is an astonishingly successful one. From Wordnik.com. [Beliefwatch: The Atheist] Reference
Dante said it better, but the vision is astonishingly the same. From Wordnik.com. [Can Science Explain Heaven?] Reference
Thus far the Obamans have played an astonishingly good ground game. From Wordnik.com. [Message: Get a Message] Reference
One of her earliest pieces was the astonishingly original "Rodeo" (1942). From Wordnik.com. [The Lady Is A Champ] Reference
People save at astonishingly high levels partly because they're scared of emergencies. From Wordnik.com. [China's Wrong Turn on Trade] Reference
I sincerely hope he lives up to the astonishingly high expectations of his supporters. From Wordnik.com. [America Welcomes A New President] Reference
Conservative pundits who dis (or ignore) the summit are being astonishingly hypocritical. From Wordnik.com. [Pundits And Hypocrites] Reference
In view of the suffering, some recent U.N. pronouncements have sounded astonishingly callous. From Wordnik.com. [When There's No Peace To Keep] Reference
A year before the election, Clinton seems, astonishingly, like the safest money in the 2008 race. From Wordnik.com. [How She Would Govern] Reference
America has fought an astonishingly successful and amazingly quick war in defense of its citizens. From Wordnik.com. [The Simplistic American?] Reference
Von Trier didn't let his actors breathe in that film; here he gets astonishingly vivid performances. From Wordnik.com. [God, Sex And Sacrifice] Reference
Despite all our differences, all the rough edges and loose ends, we have come an astonishingly long way. From Wordnik.com. [Why We Need Europe] Reference
Business and profit growth have just been astonishingly great, '' says former Fed vice chairman Alan Blinder. From Wordnik.com. [Bubble Trouble?] Reference
Historically, the British have been astonishingly patient, even coldblooded, about not revealing their sources. From Wordnik.com. [Al Qaeda's 'Pre-Election' Plot] Reference
For the last several years, the American airline industry has been remarkably — almost astonishingly — safe. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Box] Reference
Rescuers found a group of tenderfoots astonishingly unprepared, clad in shorts and T shirts, without extra supplies. From Wordnik.com. [Cell Phones: A Call From The Wild] Reference
Invariably, they offer astonishingly irrational accounts of this behavior and of its significance for the entire cosmos. From Wordnik.com. [When Atheists Attack] Reference
He wasn't chilly, exactly, but for a politician he was astonishingly inner-directed, and that could make him seem remote. From Wordnik.com. [How He Did It] Reference
The talks broke down early this year when the Europeans rejected an astonishingly (and excessively) generous U.S. proposal. From Wordnik.com. [The Assault From Airbus] Reference
That's when the negotiations, which had previously been astonishingly publicity-free, began dribbling out into the newspapers. From Wordnik.com. [Getting Real About A Deal] Reference
Now his company's astonishingly small, fuel-efficient engines can be found in Air Force and business aircraft-and the Tomahawk. From Wordnik.com. [The Mind Of A Missile] Reference
Clinton's Rolodex of policy experts from around the country is astonishingly long, and he'd be inclined to make use of them all. From Wordnik.com. [How He Would Govern] Reference
But the same quality that allowed him to dominate the game at such an astonishingly young age is also his most dangerous weakness. From Wordnik.com. [Kobe Off The Court] Reference
According to an astonishingly naive government decree earlier this year, all radiated sites in Russia should be cleaned up by 1995. From Wordnik.com. [Get Out The Geigor Counters] Reference
Saturday night, in his first fight since that appearance, Mosley was astonishingly ineffectual in losing a title fight to Winky Wright. From Wordnik.com. [Starr Gazing: Madness] Reference
Given the events of her childhood, her relationship with her family is astonishingly close; she speaks with Leslie on the phone every day. From Wordnik.com. [A Not-So-Safe Haven] Reference
"Thirty percent of this country is capable of having an astonishingly detailed, third - and fourth-level discussion about issues," he says. From Wordnik.com. [Revenge Of The Right] Reference
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