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"text": "The stunning jolt from the taser gun made the criminal stop fleeing.",
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"ref": "1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:",
"text": "At length a univerſal hubbub wild,\nOf ſtunning ſounds and voices all confus'd,\nBorne through the hollow dark, aſſaults his ear",
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"text": "The ſtunning ſtroke his ſtubborn nerves unbound;",
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"text": "[W]e put off our burdens, and sat down rather dispirited, amidst a stunning noise made by the chirping of myriads of grasshoppers, and an abominable little creature that made a constant croaking \"Caw, caw,\" producing a concert far from harmonious.",
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"text": "What if the very things you like in me now—you'd hate sometime. What if the things I think are strong and stunning in you now, I'd think were pig-headed and kickable after a while?",
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"ref": "2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 75:",
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"text": "[W]e put off our burdens, and sat down rather dispirited, amidst a stunning noise made by the chirping of myriads of grasshoppers, and an abominable little creature that made a constant croaking \"Caw, caw,\" producing a concert far from harmonious.",
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"text": "What if the very things you like in me now—you'd hate sometime. What if the things I think are strong and stunning in you now, I'd think were pig-headed and kickable after a while?",
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"ref": "2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 75:",
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"ref": "2012 April 15, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea”, in BBC:",
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"roman": "zašemetjavašt",
"sense": "having an effect that stuns",
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"sense": "having an effect that stuns",
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"sense": "having an effect that stuns",
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"sense": "having an effect that stuns",
"word": "깜짝 놀랄"
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"sense": "having an effect that stuns",
"word": "경탄할 만한"
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"word": "驚豔"
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