Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.]
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb obsolete See
wondrous .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
wonder . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
wonder .
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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.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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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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In her recent consideration of Dalkey Archive's anthology, Best European Fiction 2010, Ruth Franklin wonders:
Translated Texts 2010
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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.
Happy Hour Roundup Greg Sargent 2010
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In her recent consideration of Dalkey Archive's anthology, Best European Fiction 2010, Ruth Franklin wonders:
March 2010 2010
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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 2010
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What one wonders is what they may still reveal/report when switched off ....
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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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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.
Boing Boing 2009
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So one wonders is it Murdoch ` s balls or the saudi prince balls beckerhead is polishing?
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