Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Astonishing; astounding.
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- adjective Causing great surprise or
astonishment .
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Examples
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However, the photo one anchor calls "jaw-dropping" is raising a some questions from skeptics who say the "shark" could very well just be a surfer paddling through a wave, or the work of Photoshop.
Great White Shark In Photo Among San Diego Surfers Raises Questions (VIDEO) 2011
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Soon the company plans to unveil iPhone and iPad apps for the GMAT that apply what Selinger calls "jaw-dropping" technology.
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The images have been described as jaw-dropping, showing details such as the tracks made by the Apollo rovers and other artifacts and paraphenalia left on the moon.
Thestar.com - Home Page Debra Black 2011
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Her first recording of this repertoire, at age 17, marked her as an instrumental genius, and Sunday's rendition of the B Minor Partita was simply jaw-dropping in its perfection.
Virtuoso violinist Hilary Hahn holds her audience rapt but adds some irritants 2011
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In the Morse Museum of American Art's jaw-dropping 12,000-square-foot wing devoted to Laurelton Hall, Louis Comfort Tiffany's huge estate on the North Shore of Long Island, there are layers and layers—of materials, of meaning, of history.
Window on a Lush Life Stuart Ferguson 2011
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The really jaw-dropping thing, though, is that even in retrospect Dimon has been a nearly perfect CEO and JP Morgan basically a perfectly-run company.
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Indeed, the Bad Politics in Fiction award in 2010 almost certainly would have gone to his "The Man From Beijing," a jaw-dropping apologia for the genocidal rule of Mao Zedong.
Tattooed by Politics Michael C. Moynihan 2011
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In a style that mimics Ontario's, it's dark in the glass with jaw-dropping aromas of blackberry, cherry, black pepper and anise.
Bryan Calandrelli 2009
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Go hiking on Les Calanques, the limestone cliffs with jaw-dropping views that run along the Mediterranean coast between Marseille and Cassis.
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The surrounding area offers wide, sweeping beaches on the Aquitaine coast 13 miles away, and the jaw-dropping Dune de Pyla the highest dune in Europe is a little further north.
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