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  1. jaw-droppingadjective

    Causing great surprise or astonishment.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of jaw-dropping in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of jaw-dropping in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of jaw-dropping in a Sentence

  1. Benjamin Abbott:

    The lake’s ecosystem is not only on the edge of collapse. It is collapsing, it’s honestly jaw-dropping and totally disarming to see how much of the lake is gone. The lake is mostly lakebed right now.

  2. Debra Katz:

    Since then, he has lied publicly over and over again in an attempt to walk back his original admission. Realizing his admission was insufficient to quell the public’s growing calls for accountability, he has since resorted to belligerent lies and a Trumpian refusal to stick to a single set of facts, he has also demonstrated a jaw-dropping ignorance of the sexual harassment law he signed into effect — without great fanfare — suggesting that his behavior is fine because he never meant to make women feel uncomfortable.

  3. Ian Ziering:

    Our writer Thunder Levin is very creative, he's very imaginative and he doesn't try to outdo what he's already done, you can't outdo jumping into a shark and chain-sawing your way out. What he's so clever at is finding other moments that are equally jaw-dropping, so the movie just continues on the peaks and valleys, and it's a great, great ride for everybody.

  4. Stewart Mackinnon:

    America defeated, the consequences of a defeated America, and for an American company ... it's like jaw-dropping.

  5. President Donald Trump:

    The numbers are jaw dropping and it is alarming.


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