wow

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What really hits me when I hear them is -- wow, here I am listening to two people who are obviously in love, talking to each other like husband and wife, from their living room.

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  1. interjection Used to express wonder, amazement, or great pleasure.
  2. noun An outstanding success.
  3. transitive verb To have a strong, usually pleasurable effect on: a performance that wowed the audience.

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  • He hopes people, when seeing them, will think: "Oh, wow, a golden eagle, oh, wow, that is cool, I want to help create that habitat," he said. —  Postbulletin.com Local News
  • Report Abuse wow, a dog name fido can type? and apparently it knows spanish! wow, what a smart dog. —  Yahoo! Sports - Top News
  • We used it as a display and it was always getting comments like, wow, that is cool; or how'd you make the weather look so good. —  MacUpdate - Mac OS X
  • What really hits me when I hear them is -- wow, here I am listening to two people who are obviously in love, talking to each other like husband and wife, from their living room. —  Audience With the Podfather
  • With a few adjustments to one of the presets, it's easy to eke out a quick "wow" - —  MAKE Magazine
 

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