Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of confounding or covering with confusion; the state of being flabbergasted or bewildered.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Jocular The state of being flabbergasted.
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Then, just as the media flabbergastation was dying down in the midst of a three-anchor (plus Anderson Cooper) commitment to Hurricane Gustav and Labor Day lassitude, it flared anew with the revelation that Palin's 17-year-old unmarried daughter, Bristol, was pregnant.
Billy Kimball: How to Handle this Woman: A Playbook for the Democrats 2010
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Then, just as the media flabbergastation was dying down in the midst of a three-anchor (plus Anderson Cooper) commitment to Hurricane Gustav and Labor Day lassitude, it flared anew with the revelation that Palin's 17-year-old unmarried daughter, Bristol, was pregnant.
How to Handle this Woman: A Playbook for the Democrats Billy Kimball 2010
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Then, just as the media flabbergastation was dying down in the midst of a three-anchor (plus Anderson Cooper) commitment to Hurricane Gustav and Labor Day lassitude, it flared anew with the revelation that Palin's 17-year-old unmarried daughter, Bristol, was pregnant.
Billy Kimball: How to Handle this Woman: A Playbook for the Democrats 2008
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I had much more pleasant things to say, but after seeing Ed Bradley's report on "60 Minutes" (see the wrap-up here), I am in a state of flabbergastation.
through with buzz 2006
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I had much more pleasant things to say, but after seeing Ed Bradley's report on "60 Minutes" (see the wrap-up here), I am in a state of flabbergastation.
sand turns to glass 2006
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