Definitions
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- adverb In a
breathtaking manner. - adverb To a degree that causes shock or awe;
shockingly .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The leader of the National Union of Journalists, Michelle Stanistreet, said the now-defunct paper ordered private eye Derek Webb to join the union in what she called a "breathtakingly cynical" move.
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The leader of the National Union of Journalists, Michelle Stanistreet, said the now-defunct paper ordered private eye Derek Webb to join the union in what she called a "breathtakingly cynical" move.
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The leader of the National Union of Journalists, Michelle Stanistreet, said the now-defunct paper ordered private eye Derek Webb to join the union in what she called a "breathtakingly cynical" move.
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Then it’s off to Peru, Egypt, Greece and other areas for her assignment in breathtakingly attractive environments.
She’s baaack: Lara Croft returns in new Tomb Raider | Sync Blog 2007
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Yet the resultant may accurately be described as breathtakingly ingenious even though what is in the filtrate was in the material filtered.
Daniel Dennett: Intelligent design? Show me the science - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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Well, "pubkeybreaker's" beliefs that this dumb comparative literature means anything in math are as silly as similar statements at a certain anti-physics blog: namely breathtakingly idiotic.
The Reference Frame 2010
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We were treated to tracks as different in style as the opening We Will Rock You to Innuendo, from I Want To Break Free to, of course, Bohemian Rhapsody which their live interpretation can only be described as breathtakingly astounding.
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I told myself that if he could write about the darkest place so powerfully, so movingly and so craftily (look at that word "breathtakingly" again), didn't that mean he'd mastered and transcended it?
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a leap in logic that can only be described as breathtakingly insensitive.
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But it does raise serious questions about our dogmatic pursuit of a strategy that can only be described as breathtakingly expensive and woefully ineffective. "
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