: causing a feeling of great excitement or happiness
a thrilling discovery
a thrilling performance
… flashes into the end zone to give the Rams the winning touchdown in the most thrilling Super Bowl finish ever.—
Rick Reilly
Rick Reilly
thrillingly
adverb
Who, in fact, are the good guys and who are the bad guys in the dramas that unfold here so thrillingly?
—Marie Winn
Marie Winn
… this is a powerful and thrillingly strange movie …
—Terrence Rafferty
Terrence Rafferty
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a thrilling adventure movie
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There is nothing more thrilling than seeing a spacecraft launch — especially on a journey to the moon.
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The 75th running of the Florida Derby at Gulfstream Park on Saturday was a razor’s-edge outcome, a thrilling battle involving several of the top Kentucky Derby hopefuls in the country.
—Clark Spencer, Miami Herald, 29 Mar. 2026
Reimagining the building in whole or in part as a residence is a thrilling idea (and Francis Ford Coppola did it most recently, in his bizarre and wildly ambitious film Megalopolis), but the economics of conversion will be trickier than for the Flatiron.
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The biggest financial mismatch of the early rounds produced a thrilling ending.
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Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 30 Mar. 2026
The 75th running of the Florida Derby at Gulfstream Park on Saturday was a razor’s-edge outcome, a thrilling battle involving several of the top Kentucky Derby hopefuls in the country.
—Clark Spencer, Miami Herald, 29 Mar. 2026
Reimagining the building in whole or in part as a residence is a thrilling idea (and Francis Ford Coppola did it most recently, in his bizarre and wildly ambitious film Megalopolis), but the economics of conversion will be trickier than for the Flatiron.
—Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 27 Mar. 2026
The biggest financial mismatch of the early rounds produced a thrilling ending.
—Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 26 Mar. 2026
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“Thrilling.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/thrilling. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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