as in wonderful
causing wonder or astonishment
what a wondrous discovery fire must have been
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Recent Examples of wondrous
On the flip side, the album also alludes to the wondrous, even frightening emotional epiphanies that come with the realisation that one’s life has started to take a different direction than planned.
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Sophie Williams, Billboard, 28 Jan. 2026
Among them is the wondrous Grace Jones as May Day, the villain Max Zorin’s (Christopher Walken) henchwoman and lover (and an absolute fashion icon, to boot).
—Sezin Devi Koehler, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Jan. 2026
Treat your choices as bricks and, over time, those bricks will form something wondrous.
—Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 19 Jan. 2026
He is almost always surrounded by his bandmates — requinto guitarist Samuel Jaimez, guitarron player Khrystian Ramos, tubist José Garcia and tololoche player Moises Lopez — but there are also other recurring characters who populate his wondrous rock star existence.
—Andrea Flores
jan. 8, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2026
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Sophie Williams, Billboard, 28 Jan. 2026
Among them is the wondrous Grace Jones as May Day, the villain Max Zorin’s (Christopher Walken) henchwoman and lover (and an absolute fashion icon, to boot).
—Sezin Devi Koehler, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Jan. 2026
Treat your choices as bricks and, over time, those bricks will form something wondrous.
—Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 19 Jan. 2026
He is almost always surrounded by his bandmates — requinto guitarist Samuel Jaimez, guitarron player Khrystian Ramos, tubist José Garcia and tololoche player Moises Lopez — but there are also other recurring characters who populate his wondrous rock star existence.
—Andrea Flores
jan. 8, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wondrous
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Playing a thinly disguised version of himself, Reynolds is, as Schneeberger and Neibaur point out, funny, exasperating, and moving, and Rifkin’s impeccable tailoring of the role to fit his star gives Reynolds a wonderful summation with which to end his career.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
10 Feb. 2026
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Welcome to the wonderful world of better coffee.—
Noah Kaufman,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
10 Feb. 2026
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One amazing season gets him almost 40% of the vote.—
Assistant Sports Editor,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2026
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The Duffers, our wonderful, amazing creators, wanted to leave everybody with this level of optimism that the show has always given everyone.—
Brian Davids,
HollywoodReporter,
11 Feb. 2026
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Barring a miraculous post-All-Star break turnaround, Milwaukee appears unlikely to reach the postseason.—
Chantz Martin,
FOXNews.com,
5 Feb. 2026
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Junior’s miraculous shot saved his own life.—
Scott Haugen,
Outdoor Life,
4 Feb. 2026
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With the Games heading to France in 2030, there is work underway to include this astonishing sport into the schedule, but Billy says the speed skiing community is also content with its current position.—
Ben Church,
CNN Money,
4 Feb. 2026
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To belittle the journalist asking about these claims in such sexist terms is astonishing.—
Kathleen Walsh,
Glamour,
4 Feb. 2026
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So when parts of Florida see snow twice within days and Buffalo, New York comes close to breaking its record for days at 20 degrees or below, questions aren’t surprising and misunderstandings are common about the differences between daily weather and long-term climate.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
7 Feb. 2026
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The fact that this sartorial conspiracy theory took off online is surprising and not.—
José Criales-Unzueta,
Vanity Fair,
7 Feb. 2026
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In particular, Garwood proved to be a marvelous vocalist — stepping up to the microphone with a memorably deep and resonate voice that brought to mind Nick Cave — as well as a solid rhythm guitarist and fine soprano saxophonist with a taste for free jazz.—
Jim Harrington,
Mercury News,
4 Feb. 2026
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And yet the baying online would suggest this is more than regret, that we have all been denied some marvellous experience and the final hours of the transfer window failed to deliver on its apparent promise of unfettered theatre and fun.—
Megan Feringa,
New York Times,
4 Feb. 2026
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The movie’s vision is one of arrangements and connections, stylistic and textural clashes of hulking buildings, stark forms seen in distant vistas, sublime coincidences of collective energy thrumming from generation to generation in the simultaneity of the physical city’s chronological strata.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
4 Feb. 2026
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Your team looks sublime, indomitable even, a touch of the divine.—
Megan Feringa,
New York Times,
4 Feb. 2026
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Just another day of incredible moments at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.—
Alex Valdes,
New York Times,
9 Feb. 2026
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And that’s an incredible quality.—
Broderick Turner,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Feb. 2026
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“Wondrous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wondrous. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.
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