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Recent Examples of excitedly
Billie Eilish excitedly watches Justin Bieber's set during weekend two of the 2026 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on April 18 in Indio, California.
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Katie Hill, PEOPLE, 22 Apr. 2026
The pup barks excitedly before the door swings open and Koch drops to her knees to receive kisses and greetings.
—Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 14 Apr. 2026
Sadie excitedly barks before the door opens and Koch drops to her knees to receive kisses and greetings from the pup.
—Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 14 Apr. 2026
Back at Joanne's home, Orson is on the phone with his dad, excitedly talking about his return to Baltimore after his first semester in Palo Alto.
—Matt Cabral, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Apr. 2026
And when Floyd passes his physical to qualify for a life-insurance policy and excitedly shares how happy Clark will be for him, his doctor asks if Clark is his husband; Carol is again erased.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 13 Apr. 2026
Schafer even jumped excitedly with Maude Apatow upon arriving.
—Rebecca Ford, Vanity Fair, 8 Apr. 2026
Viewers on the live stream, meanwhile, chatted excitedly about unusual species, including a sea star that resembled Patrick Star from the cartoon Spongebob Squarepants.
—K. R. Callaway, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2026
Panthers fans excitedly rumbled in his mentions.
—Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 27 Mar. 2026
Katie Hill, PEOPLE, 22 Apr. 2026
The pup barks excitedly before the door swings open and Koch drops to her knees to receive kisses and greetings.
—Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 14 Apr. 2026
Sadie excitedly barks before the door opens and Koch drops to her knees to receive kisses and greetings from the pup.
—Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 14 Apr. 2026
Back at Joanne's home, Orson is on the phone with his dad, excitedly talking about his return to Baltimore after his first semester in Palo Alto.
—Matt Cabral, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Apr. 2026
And when Floyd passes his physical to qualify for a life-insurance policy and excitedly shares how happy Clark will be for him, his doctor asks if Clark is his husband; Carol is again erased.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 13 Apr. 2026
Schafer even jumped excitedly with Maude Apatow upon arriving.
—Rebecca Ford, Vanity Fair, 8 Apr. 2026
Viewers on the live stream, meanwhile, chatted excitedly about unusual species, including a sea star that resembled Patrick Star from the cartoon Spongebob Squarepants.
—K. R. Callaway, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2026
Panthers fans excitedly rumbled in his mentions.
—Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 27 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for excitedly
Adverb
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Rural, poor voters eagerly support candidates who flaunt their devotion to big-city business interests such as utilities or real estate developers.—
Steve Bousquet,
The Orlando Sentinel,
15 Apr. 2026
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CEOs have eagerly grabbed onto AI as a tool to make offices more efficient, and often to reduce headcount via brutal layoffs.—
Sharon Adarlo,
Futurism,
15 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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This was just as the Watergate era took hold and the Washington Post was becoming the most important and avidly read paper on earth.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Feb. 2026
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Yet years spent avidly collecting the pieces naturally left a mark in his approach.—
Sandra Salibian,
Footwear News,
6 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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His appearance was a surprise even to his colleagues, who stood up and applauded enthusiastically as the audience whooped and hollered.—
Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
9 Apr. 2026
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Yet, the three — even Cavallari and Conrad, who were pitted against each other in the 2000s — were warm and chummy, cracking jokes and enthusiastically agreeing with one another.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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With the husbands off for a golf outing, Julia and Jane (well attended to by Chimo’s martini-mixing maid Saunders) get decked out in their evening finest and wait impatiently at Julia’s luxe apartment (Jane lives upstairs) for the mystery man Maurice to arrive.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
19 Apr. 2026
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His way of impatiently rebuffing Salome’s inappropriate advances is to give her singing lessons.—
Classical Music Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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Together with Gattelli, the pair are keenly aware of what makes a musical tick — and why people love, or love to hate them — leveraging much of it to their advantage.—
Naveen Kumar,
Variety,
21 Apr. 2026
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The translator is keenly aware of inhabiting this space.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Apr. 2026
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“Excitedly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/excitedly. Accessed 24 Apr. 2026.
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