as in nervous
easily excited by nature
an excitable child who needs a stable home life
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Recent Examples of excitable
Tony has fully bought into the dream, and Skarsgård plays him with excitable, boyish humor, almost as if the whole thing were a game.
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2025
Imrie rounds out the core quartet of The Thursday Murder Club as Joyce Meadowcroft, an excitable nurse.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 28 Aug. 2025
High-quality materials ensure structural integrity and stability, even during excitable moments during intense gaming sessions.
—Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
In people who suffer chronic pain, there’s emerging evidence that their sensory neurons are more excitable than usual and can therefore be more easily triggered.
—Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2025
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2025
Imrie rounds out the core quartet of The Thursday Murder Club as Joyce Meadowcroft, an excitable nurse.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 28 Aug. 2025
High-quality materials ensure structural integrity and stability, even during excitable moments during intense gaming sessions.
—Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
In people who suffer chronic pain, there’s emerging evidence that their sensory neurons are more excitable than usual and can therefore be more easily triggered.
—Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for excitable
Adjective
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But there will be a lot of nervous folks in New England hoping Bregman's stay in Boston extends past the one-year mark.—
Jackson Roberts,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Sep. 2025
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Others were forced into the car, nervous at the prospect of 48 phone-free hours filled with talk about feelings.—
Rachel Hale,
USA Today,
25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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France has been grappling with political and economic turmoil in recent weeks, with the country seeing nationwide protests , the ousting of its Prime Minister and volatile government borrowing costs .—
Chloe Taylor,
CNBC,
24 Sep. 2025
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However, the data are volatile on a monthly basis.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
24 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Usman is anxious about the fate of her surviving twin, who is 18 months old and in need of nutritional treatment.—
Lauren Kent,
CNN Money,
21 Sep. 2025
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The uncertainty has left some players on the Valkyries anxious going into this year’s expansion draft.—
Nathan Canilao,
Mercury News,
19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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These were detected by comparing 562 pairs of satellite images (resolution <1 m/pixel) of 74 unstable sites taken at different times.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Sep. 2025
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According to Brandon’s family, his condition remains unstable.—
Escher Walcott,
PEOPLE,
20 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Researchers found that these cells became hyperactive, burning through their energy reserves and losing their ability to rest, a crucial trait for long-term regeneration.—
Pranjal Malewar,
New Atlas,
20 Sep. 2025
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All of them place us somewhere in 1997, 1998 or 1999, with the upside acceleration, euphoric sentiment and hyperactive capital markets mostly ahead of us.—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
19 Sep. 2025
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“Excitable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/excitable. Accessed 28 Sep. 2025.
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