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Recent Examples of marvelous While Carter is getting ingratiated into defensive coordinator Shane Bowen's schemes, edge rusher Brian Burns is having a marvelous season for New York. Robert Marvi, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025 Every book that has been written about Washington’s administration since—whether scholarly or popular, whether great-man or women’s history, or Vaill’s marvelous fusion of both—owes a debt to Eliza Schuyler Hamilton. Jane Kamensky, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2025 Karlsson is a marvelous talent. Josh Yohe, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025 Maura is marvelous stomping around the apartment in a cold fury and refusing to speak to Clara, who proceeds regardless with broker negotiations and brings in antiques dealer Abslam (Ahmed Boulane) to buy up the contents. David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 3 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for marvelous
Recent Examples of Synonyms for marvelous
Adjective
  • She's been gone for over 20 years, and so to win this for a soap opera, playing a villain, is really wonderful.
    Julia Moore, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Some, like the two headlining Christie’s upcoming Rare Watches auction in Geneva, have wonderful horological anomalies that set them apart from more run-of-the-mill references.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The result is bright, exotic, and joyfully subversive, proving that even the darkest wood can burn so bright.
    Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2025
  • One of her father’s projects was creating Shoemaker’s Farm, an orchard on Traylor Road in Ramona filled with common and exotic fruit trees.
    Regina Elling, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Just six minutes later, Wells gives the ball away and is punished brutally as Rhys Oates curls home a superb effort from just inside the box.
    Kaya Kaynak, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
  • The Patriots received a superb performance from Czaykowski, a three-year varsity player who scored three rushing touchdowns and two receiving while gaining nearly 200 all-purpose yards.
    David Delgado, Oc Register, 17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Dan Aykroyd's amazing cameo as the iconic Ray Stantz from Ghostbusters is a treat to watch.
    Lisa Stardust, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
  • This isn’t the first time a homeowner has shared an amazing discovery during a renovation.
    Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Thomas Wentworth Higginson spent his leisure time writing down the strange new lyrics in his journal.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The place was a dump, with paint chipping from the ceilings, floors slanted at strange angles, rodent droppings situated along the floorboards, and paper-thin walls that welcomed in bitter winter air.
    Jeff Pearlman, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The result was a 33-yard reception from Legette, who was terrific, that sealed the game.
    Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Eisen added that wide receiver Emeka Egbuka looks terrific and that the team needs running back Bucky Irving back healthy, and the ship could get back on track.
    Tyler Geis, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Everything about it pleases me, from the correctness of all the enclitic marks upward, to the astonishing lambency of the whole.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The astonishing young actor known as Master Betty was the prototype of the species.
    Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
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  • The 20-year-old was one of many players in the Argentinian squad with solid top-flight experience for their clubs, racking up 13 starts in midfield for Boca Juniors, after being given his opportunity by the great Fernando Gago back in May 2024.
    Thom Harris, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
  • For me, it’s been really essential to read a lot of great information, and to come at the world filled with knowledge and all these ideas of, in my view, much smarter and braver people than myself.
    Fiction Non Fiction, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025

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