variants also awestricken

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Recent Examples of awestruck The road to qualifying Glenorchy as a Dark Sky Sanctuary, however, took more than just the awestruck reviews of tourists like me to come to fruition. Michael D'estries, Travel + Leisure, 2 May 2025 Mortimer joins those ranks with a film that functions both as awestruck spectacle and anxious warning — joining a literal boatload of marine biologists racing to demystify an ecosystem before deep-sea miners destroy it. Guy Lodge, Variety, 31 Mar. 2025 Of course, being a little awestruck helps, when depicting someone in love. Maya Singer, Vogue, 27 Feb. 2025 At a surprise performance announced earlier in the day, the writer Jayson Greene witnessed the ageless icon play a 20-song, hits-heavy set amid a small, awestruck crowd of fans young and old. Jayson Greene, Pitchfork, 12 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for awestruck
Recent Examples of Synonyms for awestruck
Adjective
  • Her portrayal of Diana gives this Amazonian princess the proper regal bearing, but Gadot proves to have a wonderfully wry sense of humor as the character continues to be amazed at how weird male mortals are.
    Tim Grierson, Vulture, 11 July 2025
  • The organization’s chairperson, Martha Farrell, was amazed by the resilience of the glass bottle as well as that of the couple responsible for setting it afloat.
    Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 11 July 2025
Adjective
  • In what seems like a parody of a ritual that exists mostly in the imagination of cartoonists, the proposal requires the gentleman to be on his knees offering an astonished lady a box containing a ring.
    Judith Martin, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 June 2025
  • And the writer’s astonished eyes answer: yes, that was me.
    Jayson Greene, Time, 17 June 2025
Adjective
  • Regardless, artists such as Kristin Chenoweth and Rachel Zegler are shocked.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 18 July 2025
  • The chance rediscovery of the little spotted kiwi, not seen on the mainland since 1978 both shocked and delighted conservationists.
    Lauren Liebhaber July 16, Miami Herald, 16 July 2025
Adjective
  • Starting Jets center Joe Tippmann was one of those surprised people, but Glenn called Tippmann shortly after the deal was made to explain his thinking.
    Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 23 July 2025
  • Based on the findings, don’t be surprised if there are more lessons to be learned from the tragedy.
    Edward Segal, Forbes.com, 23 July 2025
Adjective
  • Indiana State Police Troopers Amanda Parker and Jaylen Holt-Terry took their plates and sat off to the side Tuesday afternoon, awed by the history in the room.
    Michelle L. Quinn, Chicago Tribune, 20 May 2025
  • The magazine saw itself as literary but not self-serious; if the stereotypical National Geographic story was a walk through the jungle recounted in hushed, awed tones, its Outside equivalent was a little dustier, wilder, and less reverent.
    Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2025

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“Awestruck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/awestruck. Accessed 26 Jul. 2025.

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