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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cock-a-hoop
Adjective
  • As Outfest makes its triumphant return with a four-day screening event in partnership with HBO Max, the LGBTQ+ film festival has revealed the first titles in its lineup.
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The album is a triumphant release that balances anger and grief and, at times, surprising joy, with Estrada’s bright, lilting soprano piercing through the veil of her pain.
    Cat Cardenas, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The winter solstice is the start of astronomical winter, when Earth's northern hemisphere is pointed the farthest away from the sun due to its tilted axis.
    Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Holly, who did not share her last name, posed in the familiar tourist style—appearing to hold up the tilted tower.
    Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • These four are all very proud of their special status, which involves democratic processes, including members electing the club’s president, approving (or not) annual accounts, and voting on changes to club statutes at assemblies that must be held once a year.
    Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The whole purpose of that flag even being created was to have something that Black Americans could be proud of and recognize us as people, as human beings, and as contributors to this country.
    Kyle Denis, Billboard, 15 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Barry Cooper, the colorful former police officer turned scourge of crooked cops, couldn’t attend the screening of a new film about him at the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival in Arkansas.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Instead of squandering a potential big inning, the Cubs had put up a crooked number.
    Sahadev Sharma, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Raina is ecstatic at the news that Sergius has impulsively led a cavalry charge that resulted in heavy losses on his side.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Whether ecstatic or vitriolic, the attention the book garnered was unprecedented.
    Via Scribner, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • After Florida State and Clemson fought for an uneven share of ACC revenue, a Georgia Tech versus Virginia championship game just feels right.
    Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Southern live oaks draped in Spanish moss that tower and twist over city squares, Neoclassical Antebellum architecture, gas lamps that flicker over uneven cobblestone paths, and a humid subtropical climate that hangs heavy in the air.
    Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Later, as news of the military takeover filtered through to protesters, many were jubilant.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The shootings cast a pall on what is normally a jubilant season in the Mississippi countryside, as stifling heat gives way to cooler autumn days and former residents return to reconnect with the community of their youth.
    Aishvarya Kavi, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The 49ers are 4-2 but can’t run the ball effectively and quarterbacks Brock Purdy (turf toe) and Mac Jones (knee, oblique) are hobbling.
    Jerry McDonald, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Two other names on the injury report for Buffalo are tight end Dalton Kincaid (oblique, questionable) and wide receiver/kick returner Curtis Samuel (neck/ribs, questionable).
    Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
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“Cock-a-hoop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cock-a-hoop. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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