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Examples
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People are 'wowing' and 'aweing', but I don't have a clue who it is.
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Long before shocking and aweing Iraq with all those bombs, a major increase in bomb production and conversion to "smart bombs" was needed.
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Today's weather proves to by much less aweing, although I have not yet ventured outside.
martinaa Diary Entry martinaa 2006
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And then, as soon as he goes to Baldini, up he comes with miracle working, aweing and astonishing his entourage with his divine -or satanic, and there lies the genius of the writer- abilities.
Perfume the Movie Contest Ayala Sender 2006
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With all this there is a good deal of display of military power on a small scale, and of such over-aweing implements as bayonets and revolvers, together with marching and counter-marching, body-guards and guards of honor.
The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004
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M. Paul amused me; I smiled to myself as I watched him, he seemed so thoroughly in his element — standing conspicuous in presence of a wide and grand assemblage, arranging, restraining, over-aweing about one hundred young ladies.
Villette 2003
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Hard not to draw parallels, as the deadline for shocking and aweing but mostly killing approaches.
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"It is Shanugahi!" said Ashunhunga, in an aweing whisper.
The Smile of God 1996
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But behind his conceit and pomposity lay a stubborn stony force; his presence too was aweing; the very way he chewed out his words made them seem incontrovertible; so Yattmur clutched Laren with all-ease and agreed to his dictates.
HOTHOUSE Aldiss, Brian 1962
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The few that have been spared in the disastrous conflagrations of centuries are still capable of aweing us by the grandeur and richness of their decoration.
The Book of Tea Okakura, Kakuzo, 1862-1913 1906
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