verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a brilliant/amazing bargain
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The house they bought was an amazing bargain.
a remarkable/amazing/extraordinary coincidence
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What an extraordinary coincidence meeting you here!
a remarkable/amazing/miraculous recovery
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Doctors have every confidence that Laura will continue her remarkable recovery.
an amazing variety
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The market has an amazing variety of fresh fish.
never cease to amaze me (= I am always surprised by them )
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The things people will do for charity never cease to amaze me .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
always
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It always amazed her to see that other people could live so comfortably upon such barren territory.
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It always amazes me that animals reach the surface alive from great depths.
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I am always amazed that the basic rules of portraiture are rarely taught.
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I was always amazed that any electric motor could turn the engine, transmission, and those big rotor blades.
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As the tailor never saw his subject, it always amazed me how well the dresses fitted.
how
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You have to be amazed how young and silly they could be or how solemn with foreboding.
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It is often amazing how well siblings will get along when parents are not in view.
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It's amazing how you can settle into the gentle pace of life after such a short time.
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It was amazing how much gay-themed music they played, like four Village People songs and a lot of Sister Sledge.
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She was amazed how much easier the tube journey to Mornington Crescent was at this time of the day.
just
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My physical reactions were just amazing .
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To watch my body and feel it do things it had never done before was just amazing .
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It is just amazing to me that all that money went to him.
most
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I saw what has to be one of the most amazing sporting sights in the world.
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He was a large, quiet man with the most amazing muscular development I have ever seen.
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Suddenly the shade evaporates, and I find myself in the most amazing summer garden.
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AsIread during the next few weeks, I began to find the most amazing peace.
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Wading out across the wheat I come to a single wild poppy of a most amazing pink.
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And to some that may be the most amazing thing of all.
still
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All my life and they still amaze me.
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It still amazes me that this winery can produce such good wines in such massive quantities.
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It still amazes Paul how John can do voices.
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The publicity generated by the anti-Gingrich ploy still amazes him.
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It still amazes me that I - an arts graduate - do this job.
truly
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It would have been truly amazing if this system had been Flash Memory compatible.
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I explained how that worked and he looked truly amazed .
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I have been doing this for a long time, and I am still truly amazed .
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The calming effect is truly amazing .
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It is all truly amazing , and highly improbable, given all the ways the system could break down.
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But it would be truly amazing if the most efficient rule for the job already existed, just by chance.
■ NOUN
people
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Her sister, 10-year-old Claire, was amazed that people could make rude jokes and not get into trouble for it.
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An amazing mass of people walked steadily and appeared untroubled.
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You'd be amazed the things people want you to talk about at lectures!
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Soon after we moved to another place, I was amazed at the people I saw.
■ VERB
cease
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I have no problems with this evidence, but it never ceases to amaze me what some modern theologians do with it.
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It never ceased to amaze me to watch soldiers head right for these places.
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It never ceases to amaze me!
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It never ceases to amaze me what human beings can do when they have to dig deep.
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It never ceased to amaze me how he could do it.
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I never cease to be amazed at the damage human beings do to one another.
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Frye never ceased to be amazed by how little they knew, how unfamiliar they were with the basic routines of school.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Dave amazed his friends by leaving a well-paid job to travel around the world.
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It amazes me that no-one has thought of the idea sooner.
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Some kids will amaze you with what they can do.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But my children were as amazed at this strange petrel with its eerie call as I had hoped they would be.
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Frye never ceased to be amazed by how little they knew, how unfamiliar they were with the basic routines of school.
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Never before had she wielded words of such force; she spoke to hurt, but was amazed when she succeeded.
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The mound of coins continues to grow as the little Kool Aid tycoons and garbage financiers continue to amaze and to amass.