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marvels

noun

plural of marvel

as in wonders

something extraordinary or surprising that new electric car really is a marvel

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Recent Examples of marvels Today, Astana’s skyline can keep up with the best of them, with 21st-century architectural marvels made from concrete, steel, and glass cresting over the country’s endless steppes into the horizon. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Oct. 2026 Frances marvels at how quickly people are radicalized online, how the machine essentially transforms them from one type of individual to another. — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2026 One named Jackie marvels at nothing in particular on a grubby London street. — Lauren Jackson, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2026 Unlike other pipe organs, these engineering marvels have percussive sound effects for thunderclaps, horse hooves and train whistles, perfect for old movie palaces. — Cooper Katz McKim, NPR, 2 Oct. 2026 Few people realize it these days, but both the rifle and round were technical marvels. — John B. Snow, Outdoor Life, 24 Sep. 2026 An Amazon subcontracted delivery driver marvels at the company’s surveillance of his work combined with their hands-off attitude towards any liability. — Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 9 Sep. 2026 Metzger marvels as the shark’s thick, rugged skin snaps a surgical-grade scalpel. — ABC News, 1 Sep. 2026 Skills that easily get tagged for the purposes of AI modeling achieve some algorithmic marvels but fail in the objective of what they were supposed to do in the first place. — Tonushree Mondal, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2026

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Wright also interrogates the boundary between severe mental illness and evil, and wonders whether, even in extreme cases, redemption might be possible.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026
Directed by Rocky, Aisulton Seitov, and Pietro Biz Biasia, the appropriately trippy video opens with the rapper discovering the wonders of nature in a hippie wonderland, where even the old ladies knitting on park benches will take a toke.

— Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2026

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Even those who don’t believe in miracles must concede the improbability of such historic continuity.

— Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 8 Oct. 2026
The woman understood from her hasty reading that perhaps all miracles could be attributed to saints and angels if they were experienced by a believer.

— Ellen O’Connell Whittet, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2026

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