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causing great surprise or sudden wonder.
Contemporary Examples

There are films that look very likely, but (the list) is amazingly bereft.
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amazingly enough, it has widely stood up to experimental testing.
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Michelle Obama, sitting next to Madeleine Albright, was amazingly glamorous.
Laughter in the Dark Tina Brown February 1, 2009

Like, the most vicious, cruelest, most amazingly crafted insults ever.
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The risk of being wrong was small, but the potential payoff for being right was amazingly high.
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Historical Examples

“I know,” said Mrs. Walshingham, “I know everything,” and helped him out most amazingly.
Kipps H. G. Wells

You amazingly sulky man, what are you muttering to yourself?
Athalie Robert W. Chambers

Billy showed a set of amazingly white teeth in a broad grin, and departed swiftly and silently.
A Little Bush Maid Mary Grant Bruce

Never in his life had he seen anything so amazingly beautiful as Angela.
Colorado Jim George Goodchild

He was amazingly apt, and two years of opportunity meant much more to him than to most men.
The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (Volume I of 5) Various

adjective
causing wonder or astonishment: amazing feats
adj.

early 15c., “stupefactive;” 1590s, “dreadful;” present participle adjective from amaze. Sense of “wonderful” is recorded from 1704. Related: Amazingly.