Definitions
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- n. Plural form of wonder.
- v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wonder.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adv. See wondrous.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Wonderfully; wondrous.
- [This is the reading of the original edition and of the manuscripts. It has been changed into wonderous in some modern editions, and perhaps correctly.]
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Examples
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"They took a very hard look at whether this really was something beyond what they described as the wonders of modern medicine," Rubens says.
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What one wonders is what they may still reveal/report when switched off ....
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You'll take a ride that is wrapped in wonders ... through the metropolis of the future, over Antarctic wastes, into tropical jungles, along the ocean floor.
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But what, Isabel wonders, is at the root of Toms interest in Isabel herself?
The Right Attitude To Rain by Alexander McCall Smith: Book summary
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Wallace should have identified the moment as the zenith of the investigation; the reader wonders from the beginning of the book whether those initials were legit or not.
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Palin wonders why she has been attacked so much, well she lied continuously against President Obama and didn't stop the people at her rallies from shouting 'kill him'.
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So one wonders is it Murdoch ` s balls or the saudi prince balls beckerhead is polishing?
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In her recent consideration of Dalkey Archive's anthology, Best European Fiction 2010, Ruth Franklin wonders:
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* Ezra Klein wonders how many House seats Dems would have to lose in order to make it no longer worthwhile to extend health care to 32 million Americans.
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When Sparky the Penguin wonders why nobody thought to question these silly ideas, he finds out that people were afraid of being laughed at if they disagreed with the mayor.
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