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Recent Examples of cheer
Verb
During her set at BBC Radio 2 In the Park festival in Chelmsford, Essex, over the weekend, fans cheered as Jessie appeared before the crowd. Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2025 At the end, Tengbjerg counted down, the audience cheered, and the judges groggily returned to alertness. Sarah Larson, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
When Harry and Meghan visited in 2017, crowds gathered outside the National Justice Museum to greet them with cheers. Simon Perry, People.com, 9 Sep. 2025 By far the highlight of the night was the half-time show performed by the kids alongside the varsity cheer team. Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cheer
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cheer
Verb
  • The user who tweeted the video, @SMHIghlights1, taunted Sanders for wanting the starting quarterback job because Cleveland lost, and instead of joining in on the mockery, several fans in the comment section actually applauded Sanders for being a good teammate.
    Michael Gallagher, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
  • On one hand, many applauded Williams for her transparency.
    Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Horowitz, who has written multiple books about the mental lives of dogs, was reassuring on this point.
    Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Mayor Barbara Lee reassured fans a day before the match.
    Evan Webeck, Mercury News, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The late Tom Wolfe, rubbing his hands with glee and spilling lemonade on his white suit, would be delighted that tradition has now taken its revenge on stuffy Bauhaus Europeanism, and maybe rightly so.
    Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Or wait, is that an actual expression of glee?
    Chris Willman, Variety, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • That stat alone underscores how well the starting rotation has held up, even as the relief corps falters.
    Julio Cesar Valdera Morales, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Nights won’t offer much relief either as morning lows will be warmer as well, reducing the recovery time for anyone sensitive to heat illness.
    Briana Waxman, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In that spirit, the exhibition resists the expectation that women and non-binary artists must define themselves in contrast to a male norm.
    Caterina De Biasio, Vogue, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The spirit of his work, which earned him a humanism in medicine scholarship in medical school, is what prompted him to call Sutton-Schulman.
    Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The resulting film drew a rousing ovation at TIFF, a fitting start to its Oscar season rollout for all the work the filmmakers put into it.
    Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Their powerful performances prompted a 15-minute standing ovation, and the wrestler-turned-actor was seen tearfully applauding.
    Yamillah Hurtado, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • One fellow-freestyler praised her ingenuity but said that, in a creative category with many strong contenders, her victory was a bit disappointing.
    Sarah Larson, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Reviewers praise its atmospheric setting and rich world-building, but some criticised its punishing difficulty.
    Griff Griffin, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Since Blood of My Blood has already been renewed for a second season, viewers can rest assured that Julia and Henry’s reunion is a matter of when and how, not if.
    Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Concentrating the Black population in a majority-minority district assures some degree of representation.
    Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025

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“Cheer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cheer. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.

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