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Word: wowing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...function beyond looking pretty. Its first order of business--but only its first--is to play video games. It's not high praise to say the Xbox 360 is the greatest piece of gaming hardware ever created, because gaming hardware gets better all the time. But there is a wow factor to the Xbox 360 because it's the first console for which all the games will be in high definition, wide screen, with Dolby 5.1 surround sound. It's like putting on a pair of glasses: everything is clearer and sharper and more vivid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Microsoft: Out of the X Box | 5/15/2005 | See Source »

...popular style sometimes goes too far, however. Friedman tends to externalize his internal monologue as he travels the non-Western world. His thoughts unfortunately include aw-shucks American bemusement with those Asians and their technology: Wow, bullet trains have wireless, but I can’t get good cell phone service in Bethesda...

Author: By Douglas E. Lieb, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: BOOKENDS: Friedman & Co. Party Like It's 1491 | 5/9/2005 | See Source »

...Wow, that is totally unfortunate. Can I have your number...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 5/5/2005 | See Source »

...People get very interested and say, ‘Wow that’s so cool,’ and ‘Can I touch your hair?’” Lussier says...

Author: By Monica M. Clark, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Native Americans Find Campus Family | 5/4/2005 | See Source »

...Stand his or her ground"? "Meet force with force"? Wow. It's as if the text of a real bill somehow got transposed with dialogue from a 1970s Dirty Harry paean to vigilantism. I can picture a stressed-out Tampa soccer mom drawing a bead on an approaching panhandler and shrieking, "Go ahead, make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shoot First, Regret Legislation Later | 5/1/2005 | See Source »

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