stunningly

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Recent Examples of stunningly Husseini had proven stunningly corrupt. Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025 She was stunningly draped in a tan Harith Hashim ensemble, the wavy silhouette of which contrasted with how Andrew Fitzsimons styled her hair perfectly straight. Marci Robin, Allure, 11 Sep. 2025 While stunningly shot, this is no usual Franz Kafka biopic, with Holland more interested in nightmares than the who, what, when, where and why of a story. Marta Balaga, Variety, 7 Sep. 2025 La Spezia is your gateway to Pisa, Genoa, and Florence, as well as Cinque Terre, five stunningly vertical villages that are all easily connected by train. Wendy Altschuler, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025 Howard’s reputation for being a workmanlike filmmaker — solid, unflashy, without an easily noticeable personal style — proves to be stunningly effective in Frost/Nixon, where the actors and the script are the real stars. Will Leitch, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025 Across 12 tracks, KAYTRANADA forgoes any and all features and allows his textured, stuttering sound flow in and out of grooves, vibes and feelings, making for a stunningly cohesive dance album that’s guaranteed to keep you dancing for all of its 35 minutes. Stephen Daw, Billboard, 15 Aug. 2025 After launching Béis back in 2018, the actress and entrepreneur quickly gained status as a celeb whose business ventures actually align with their personal interests, a fact which became stunningly clear as Mitchell lit up telling Travel + Leisure about her limited-edition collection with Gap. Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 5 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stunningly
Adverb
  • This is amazingly rude, but still sayable.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Book a Stay Hotel Bella Grande (which is owned by Cofoco) offers an amazingly central location in downtown Copenhagen, but be advised the rooms are not air-conditioned which can be an issue during the warmer summer months.
    Katie Kelly Bell, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Cosmologists now argue the universe’s primordial magnetic fields were astonishingly weak, comparable to the brain’s tiny signals, yet still thread today’s cosmic web.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Tulloch is one of Silicon Valley’s cutting-edge AI researchers who have lately attracted astonishingly lucrative job offers from legacy tech companies trying to lure them away from their AI-native startups.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • Yet a surprisingly large number of dishes that are washed end up being washed by hand.
    Jeremy Lott, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The question of which individual investor owns which share of which company is surprisingly murky, an artifact of arcane market plumbing made more difficult by the rise of ETFs and fractional share ownership.
    Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Ruffalo's fallen federal agent is Tom Brandis, a former priest who is reassigned from the field to man career fair booths after an astoundingly terrible family tragedy leaves him a broken man.
    Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2025
  • To make matters worse, most leaders of advanced economies are astoundingly clueless as to how to create conditions for vibrant prosperity.
    Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • Upwards of ten thousand fans made the trip each year, but despite the match-up’s popularity and history, the Georgia Tech administration unexpectedly announced its intention to end the series when the contract ran out in the late 1970s.
    Elizabeth Hutchison Hicklin, Southern Living, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Wholesale inflation prices also fell unexpectedly last month.
    Fred Imbert, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2025

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“Stunningly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stunningly. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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