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Recent Examples of cheer
Verb
Investors have cheered second-quarter corporate profits that grew even in the face of higher tariffs, and have shrugged off recent, weak economic data, especially the labor market . Yun Li, CNBC, 11 Aug. 2025 The team my pops and I grew up cheering for way up in Harrisburg, PA. Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 10 Aug. 2025
Noun
This time around, however, there were more cheers than boos despite Cena’s best efforts. Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025 When a quick video that includes Moore flashes up on the Jumbotron at Albertsons Stadium, the cheers still get very loud. Idaho Statesman, 1 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cheer
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cheer
Verb
  • For the second time in six months, captain Virgil van Dijk and his team-mates stood watching and applauding as the silverware was presented at Wembley.
    James Pearce, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Many livestream commenters have applauded Conicent for its work, however, and shared public messages of encouragement.
    Leslie Katz, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • But Montes said she felt reassured after learning more about how the integration would be handled.
    Hanna Kang, Oc Register, 6 Aug. 2025
  • However, Tiny Desk producer Bobby Carter has already taken to Instagram to reassure audiences that the series — which has seen performances by artists like Adele, T-Pain, and Korea’s BTS — will continue.
    Andy Meek, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • John Redcorn conveniently enters with an attractive business proposition: John Redcorn's Red Corn, which the entirety of Rainey Street devours with glee.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • There was a kind of trickster’s glee in his expression.
    Darcy Ballantyne July 16, Literary Hub, 16 July 2025
Noun
  • Next door is the optional adjoining Suite Jaune d’Or bathed in the golden tones of Marrakech’s desert sands, where elephants march around ceilings in sculpted relief.
    Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • By Tuesday afternoon, Aztecs players and coaches — and fans — could breathe a collective sigh of relief.
    Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • This shared spirit between Magnolia Pearl and brands like Foreign Tongues as well as other artisan-first labels points to a rising current in fashion—a rejection of disposability, trend-chasing, and mass-production-at-all-costs.
    Tanya Benedicto Klich, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Festivities will finish with a lantern lighting ceremony at around 8 p.m. Six stone lanterns and paper lanterns will be released on the Japanese Garden pond and the Frog Pond so that, according to the tradition, spirits can return to their resting places.
    Kathryn Kovalenko, Twin Cities, 13 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Cena was getting a standing ovation in his final SummerSlam when Lesnar's music blared for the first time in two years.
    Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Spencer Strider, who grew up in nearby Knoxville, got a bigger ovation than Reds starter Chase Burns, who is from Hendersonville and played at the University of Tennessee.
    Teresa M. Walker, Chicago Tribune, 3 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Highlighting the beauty and peril of open water swimming and the obstacles women continue to face in the pursuit of equality, Vindication Swim has been praised for its vivid portrait of Gleitze as a pioneering trailblazer for women’s open water swimming around the world.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Megyn Kelly can’t seem to praise her beloved Sydney Sweeney without disrespecting Beyoncé in the same breath.
    Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 6 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • With no candidate willing to step aside, Mamdani’s election is all but assured.
    Menachem Spiegel, New York Daily News, 5 Aug. 2025
  • However, the hotel assured them that Jack was found recently.
    Natalia Senanayake, People.com, 5 Aug. 2025

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“Cheer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cheer. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.

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