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Recent Examples of wonderment The girls become kindred spirits, sharing secrets, wonderment, and several key world events. Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Dec. 2024 Generally, the drama does spectacularly well with abiding by a primal sense of magical realism — the finding of wonderment in the banal and the insertion of banality into the wondrous. Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Dec. 2024 Killian’s reviews are brimming with genuine pleasure, and also a wonderment and ardor for the great variety of stuff on the Web site. Oscar Schwartz, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2024 But there is one perennial tradition that conjures winter wonderment just as well: ice skating in the city’s Union Square. Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for wonderment
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wonderment
Noun
  • Several years ago, many of us shared amazement when the State’s current owners, Red and Linda McMonagle, reopened the movie house after an extensive remodeling.
    Doug Hanneman, Twin Cities, 8 Feb. 2025
  • Out of these mixings will come magnificent horrors and amazements.
    Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 3 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Confidential and Memento, Pearce is, to the astonishment of many, celebrating his very first Oscar nomination this year, with his terrifying supporting turn in The Brutalist.
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 19 Feb. 2025
  • In her episode, Roan recreates the cover of her 2023 album, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, all while going long about her influences and her astonishment at her meteoric rise to stardom.
    James Factora, Them, 6 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Trump and Zelenskyy spoke politely, even with admiration, of each other for the first half hour of the meeting.
    DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE STAFF FROM WIRE REPORTS, arkansasonline.com, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Portman has previously spoken of her admiration for Dunham as a filmmaker and how she was inspired by her after seeing Tiny Furniture.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Switzerland Is Home To Two Of Europe’s Most Underrated Natural Wonders Switzerland is the setting for the top two natural wonders in Europe.
    Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
  • The addition of Robinson could do wonders for them on that part.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 27 Feb. 2025

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“Wonderment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wonderment. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.

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