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  • verb Present participle of marvel.

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Examples

  • Some may recall marveling at the futility of the "cut and burn campaigns" which were initiated to halt the spread of an epidemic that was killing trees literally by the millions each year. killed 77 million trees.

    Wired Top Stories 2009

  • I recall marveling at her wearing her bald head without a scarf and living her truth as a way to help and encourage other women to do the same.

    Jen Grisanti: So You Think You Can Dance Salutes Breast Cancer 2009

  • As a boy, Basil Maher recalls marveling at dockland warehouses piled high with rubber, steel and fragrant coffee.

    Debt Crisis Hits a Dynasty 2008

  • I recall marveling at the chaotic mess and feeling sorry for the janitors.

    unknown title 2009

  • I recall marveling at the charting styles of my colleagues and professors: the long, obsessively complete note of the intern versus the almost aphoristic musings of the attending-the former chock full of unorganized information, and the latter synthetic in its encapsulation of the problem and plan of action.

    Notes from Dr. RW 2008

  • But probably it would scared you or just kind of marveling at the size and strength and the grace of this animal.

    CNN Transcript Jul 28, 2008 2008

  • SMITH: Yes, really, I was just kind of marveling at the -- at the scene.

    CNN Transcript Jan 2, 2005 2005

  • They flung themselves at the window in a kind of marveling ecstasy.

    Fantastic Voyage Asimov, Isaac, 1920- 1966

  • A more shameless sentence was never penned, and one stands marveling which is the more grotesque -- the cynicism of the sentiment or the folly which gave such a warning to the victim.

    New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index Various

  • Mostly, I'm just kind of marveling that Crunchy is ours.

    The Willful Caboose Katebits 2010

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