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verb

as in to delight
to feel or express joy or triumph the whole town is joying in the fact that its oldest church has been restored to its Victorian splendor

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Recent Examples of joy
Noun
Cannes regular Lizzie Shapiro, a producer at Space Program with credits like Shiva Baby and Sasquatch Sunset, talks the joy of a late-night Doner Kebab and being mistaken for Robert Pattinson’s publicist. Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 15 May 2025 That joy returned when the Warriors extended him at $110 million over two years. Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 15 May 2025
Verb
Before long, her videos were the ones bringing people joy. Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 9 Dec. 2022 But also to joy in and record the astonishment—inner and outer. Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 1 Jan. 2023 See All Example Sentences for joy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for joy
Noun
  • The perfect smile can be the key to self-esteem, to happiness, to personal connection.
    Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2025
  • Enzo Maresca There’s a particular sort of person who tends to celebrate goals, wins, anything to do with sporting success really, not with obvious expressions of happiness, but with an intensity that might look like anger to the untrained eye.
    Nick Miller, New York Times, 11 May 2025
Noun
  • But turtles were seen popping their heads above the lake surface to the delight of many.
    Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 19 May 2025
  • Hardiness Zone: 5 to 9 Hollyhocks are quintessential cottage garden plants, with showy blooms standing tall in the garden all summer long to the delight of pollinators and gardeners alike.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 18 May 2025
Verb
  • Messi, at 35, led his country to glory against France, winning soccer’s ultimate prize in a pulsating match that finished 3-3 after extra time and had to be settled by a nerve-wracking penalty shootout.
    Patrick Smith, NBC News, 19 Dec. 2022
  • If Harris can bring together a family with Indian, African, and Jewish heritage, America can glory in its diversity.
    Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 26 Aug. 2020
Noun
  • Outside of Madison Square Garden was chaotic bliss.
    James L. Edwards III, New York Times, 17 May 2025
  • But the bliss ended mere minutes later when, in a shocking moment of irony (reminiscent to when Serena became a handmaid herself in season five), a handmaid was waiting for the Whartons in their parlor.
    Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2025
Noun
  • The future will be controlled by inflicting pleasure, not pain.
    Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
  • Hell, by way of pleasure and ambition, this slight-but-winsome dramedy offers a step-up from recent vintages; by way of international resonance, however, this latest opener seems unlikely for a world tour.
    Ben Croll, IndieWire, 13 May 2025
Verb
  • By then, however, it was firmly expected that Brazil would triumph.
    Adam Crafton, New York Times, 21 May 2025
  • May 11, 2025 Locked in a tense battle, Woods triumphed in the playoff, securing his second consecutive PGA Championship title.
    Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 May 2025
Noun
  • All of this means that if Sabalenka is alive in the final four and Świątek is on the other side of the net, both are likely to be in the kind of form to give the sport a rare treat: the two of them actually playing one another.
    Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 22 May 2025
  • And for a real treat, pick up 80% off a busy board to keep little ones occupied.
    Chaunie Brusie, Parents, 21 May 2025
Noun
  • After a day in the park, feast on local salmon and greens grown on the property, stretch out in the yoga yurt or the sauna, and cozy up with a good book around the fire.
    Chloe Arrojado, AFAR Media, 21 May 2025
  • The cycle begins with the return of the first salmon in spring, which Pacific Northwest tribal nations honor with the First Salmon feast.
    Cheryl Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 May 2025

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