: marked by the enthusiastic expression of college spirit
rah-rah cheerleaders
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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.
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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
The sentiment—rah-rah but respectful of the ancestors’ blood—got lent to the Olympics, which counted Beyoncé as one of its celebrity endorsers.
—Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2024
The game’s best player is also the Dodgers’ rah-rah guy.
—Mirjam Swanson, Orange County Register, 26 Sep. 2024
There’s no rah-rah patriotism; there’s no epic grandstanding.
—EW.com, 26 Sep. 2024
There was no rah-rah varnish to the story — this was brutal, bloody, and raw.
—Sean Woods, Rolling Stone, 22 Sep. 2024
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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
The sentiment—rah-rah but respectful of the ancestors’ blood—got lent to the Olympics, which counted Beyoncé as one of its celebrity endorsers.
—Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2024
The game’s best player is also the Dodgers’ rah-rah guy.
—Mirjam Swanson, Orange County Register, 26 Sep. 2024
There’s no rah-rah patriotism; there’s no epic grandstanding.
—EW.com, 26 Sep. 2024
There was no rah-rah varnish to the story — this was brutal, bloody, and raw.
—Sean Woods, Rolling Stone, 22 Sep. 2024
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“Rah-rah.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rah-rah. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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