: marked by the enthusiastic expression of college spirit
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John Wayne, the hero of so many rah-rah war movies including The Green Berets (1968) handed the 1979 Academy Award for Best Picture to Michael Cimino for his disturbing 1978 treatment of the war in Viet Nam, The Deer Hunter.
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Alex Vernon
may 27, Literary Hub, 27 May 2025
The spectacle offered a rah-rah turning-of-the-page on last year’s graduation controversy at USC.
—Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2025
The problem with all of this is that the excessive rah-rah is a mask for diminishment.
—Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2025
Larger public schools in the state, like the University of South Carolina and Clemson, have big rah-rah energy and are fearsome competitors.
—Ron Lieber, New York Times, 1 May 2025
But Disney, realizing the funk that theatrical was in post-Covid and post-strikes, stepped it up immensely last year and kept the rah-rah for motion pictures going this year.
—Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 3 Apr. 2025
Scott is magnificent in the role, but this is no simple rah-rah portrait of a true American hero.
—Will Leitch, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025
That might sound like a rah-rah way of putting lipstick on a Bulldogs offense that has not been particularly great at anything.
—Seth Emerson, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
Part of the kick on Brat is Charli’s delirious solipsism, all synthetic robot rah-rah in the beats, but with vocals swerving between defiant egomania and vulnerably tormented self-doubt.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2024
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Alex Vernon
may 27, Literary Hub, 27 May 2025
The spectacle offered a rah-rah turning-of-the-page on last year’s graduation controversy at USC.
—Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2025
The problem with all of this is that the excessive rah-rah is a mask for diminishment.
—Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2025
Larger public schools in the state, like the University of South Carolina and Clemson, have big rah-rah energy and are fearsome competitors.
—Ron Lieber, New York Times, 1 May 2025
But Disney, realizing the funk that theatrical was in post-Covid and post-strikes, stepped it up immensely last year and kept the rah-rah for motion pictures going this year.
—Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 3 Apr. 2025
Scott is magnificent in the role, but this is no simple rah-rah portrait of a true American hero.
—Will Leitch, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025
That might sound like a rah-rah way of putting lipstick on a Bulldogs offense that has not been particularly great at anything.
—Seth Emerson, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
Part of the kick on Brat is Charli’s delirious solipsism, all synthetic robot rah-rah in the beats, but with vocals swerving between defiant egomania and vulnerably tormented self-doubt.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2024
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“Rah-rah.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rah-rah. Accessed 16 Jun. 2025.
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