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exhilarated

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verb

past tense of exhilarate

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of exhilarated
Adjective
As Figgis says, instead of crushing Coppola, the dramatic turn of events left him exhilarated. Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 28 Aug. 2025 That was the man who walked out smiling, a little overwhelmed but entirely calm, into the late afternoon Roman sunshine, to the roars of a stunned and exhilarated crowd. Anna Rowlands, Time, 12 May 2025 The Foreman fight sealed his vindication with an exhilarated reception throughout the world. Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2025 Walking into that pitch-black space, not seeing anything while having my eyes wide open exhilarated and frightened me. Jeryl Brunner, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024 Unlike his exhilarated mother, Titus reacted neutrally. Jenna Russell, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2023 She was surrounded by exhilarated doctors who had completed the first successful fetal brain surgery two days earlier. Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 12 May 2023 The day of races produced no formal winners or losers — just a lot of exhilarated athletes and boosters. Chronicle Staff, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Mar. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for exhilarated
Adjective
  • The prose is ecstatic and freaky and muscular.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
  • If this game was a sign of things to come, Green Bay fans should be ecstatic.
    Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Audiences quickly attached to the affair, seemingly thrilled by the idea of a second-chance love for two bona fide movie stars in their own right.
    Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Fans will undoubtedly be thrilled to see the literal origins of Claire and Brian, both of whom are essential for bringing the original series story to pass.
    Hunter Ingram, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • First, exploratory roundtables with UK directors across sectors, identifying how executives thought about GenAI—what excited them, what worried them.
    London Business School, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Some users are excited by the new focus on active members, while others are frustrated with the move.
    James Peckham, PC Magazine, 10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Today's talkers Travis Kelce is giddy.
    Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The result is a sturdy uptrend, full valuations, hopeful but not overly giddy investor sentiment and solid credit conditions.
    Michael Santoli, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Initially powered by a water counterbalance system, it was soon converted to steam in 1886 and later electrified by 1915.
    Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Advertisement First opened in 1885, the Glória funicular was electrified in 1915.
    Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Wilson has been delighted at the response her video has gotten.
    Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Business interests were delighted by the bill’s defeat.
    Thomas Elias, Mercury News, 29 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Magnitude had descended in the track’s estimation from the 2-1 morning line by post time to go off at 7-2, but Bracket Buster, who went off at 17-1 to place, pleased his trainer Victoria Oliver by stepping smartly out of the pack to challenge Sovereignty briefly at the top of the stretch.
    Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • His effort to schmaltz Putin with a display of royal pageantry obviously pleased this murderous dictator to no end.
    Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2025

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