as in buried
to defeat by a large margin
the chess prodigy completely blew away the reigning world champion
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Recent Examples of blown away
Lee says she was actually blown away by the texture and quality of the brand’s repair treatment.
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Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 21 Apr. 2026
Grazier said he and Howard were blown away by Lovell's survival story.
—Adam Harrington, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2026
And so we’ve all been blown away.
—Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 19 Apr. 2026
Players come to the Avalanche and are blown away by the level of detail in the club’s pre-scout meetings on game days.
—Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 18 Apr. 2026
But occasionally, those seeds attract their surrounding matter, grow to be massive, rocky, and spheroidal, carve gaps in the disk, and persist, even after the last of this protoplanetary material has been blown away by the young star.
—Big Think, 17 Apr. 2026
Mary Williams, the bookstore’s co-owner and general manager, told The Times this week that the team at Skylight was blown away by the response online.
—Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2026
Graham King, who is a fantastic producer, found him, and introduced him to me, and I was blown away.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Apr. 2026
She was quite blown away by our cast’s performances.
—Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 9 Apr. 2026
Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 21 Apr. 2026
Grazier said he and Howard were blown away by Lovell's survival story.
—Adam Harrington, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2026
And so we’ve all been blown away.
—Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 19 Apr. 2026
Players come to the Avalanche and are blown away by the level of detail in the club’s pre-scout meetings on game days.
—Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 18 Apr. 2026
But occasionally, those seeds attract their surrounding matter, grow to be massive, rocky, and spheroidal, carve gaps in the disk, and persist, even after the last of this protoplanetary material has been blown away by the young star.
—Big Think, 17 Apr. 2026
Mary Williams, the bookstore’s co-owner and general manager, told The Times this week that the team at Skylight was blown away by the response online.
—Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2026
Graham King, who is a fantastic producer, found him, and introduced him to me, and I was blown away.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Apr. 2026
She was quite blown away by our cast’s performances.
—Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 9 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blown away
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Yet there’s very little drama in Gowin’s pictures, and any plot is sketchy or buried.—
Vince Aletti,
New Yorker,
18 Apr. 2026
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The new picture also captures shadowy fractures and pits that hint at large volumes of water ice still buried beneath the surface, as well as numerous impact craters surrounded by the detritus of their own explosive formation.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
17 Apr. 2026
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DeVito also directed this charming flick that kinda bombed in theaters but developed a following on VHS and DVD.—
Brian Tallerico,
Vulture,
11 Apr. 2026
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Residents say the Israelis have prevented residents — most of whom work in agriculture — from accessing their farmland near the border; other fields were bombed with white phosphorous, Lebanese authorities said, destroying vegetation and thousands of trees.—
Nabih Bulos,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Apr. 2026
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There were no footprints leading in and out of the buildings, though with the storm’s intensity any trace of them would have been snowed under within minutes.—
Ariane Lange,
Sacbee.com,
20 Feb. 2026
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