as in vigorousness
the quality or state of having abundant or intense activity
the exuberance of the housing market was an encouraging economic indicator
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Recent Examples of exuberance
If that miracle was exuberance around the state’s fast-growing artificial intelligence industry, much of that revenue has already been spoken for due to California’s budget formula.
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Kate Wolffe, Sacbee.com, 26 Dec. 2025
Despite investor exuberance this year, the gold rally may not continue its run in 2026, according to Capital Economics.
—Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 22 Dec. 2025
This matches the highest level since at least 2010, which was reached in February 2022, just as the market was rolling over from exuberance into a nine-month bear market.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 20 Dec. 2025
There’s an exuberance at the record’s core, a palpable sense of enthusiasm animating these tracks.
—Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 20 Dec. 2025
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Kate Wolffe, Sacbee.com, 26 Dec. 2025
Despite investor exuberance this year, the gold rally may not continue its run in 2026, according to Capital Economics.
—Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 22 Dec. 2025
This matches the highest level since at least 2010, which was reached in February 2022, just as the market was rolling over from exuberance into a nine-month bear market.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 20 Dec. 2025
There’s an exuberance at the record’s core, a palpable sense of enthusiasm animating these tracks.
—Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 20 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for exuberance
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To put its change in brightness into perspective, the brightest observed x-ray flare from Sagittarius A* happened in 2013, but that event had only 1 percent of the brightness of what the black hole may have emitted perhaps as recently as a few hundred years ago, Michail says.—
Jackie Flynn Mogensen,
Scientific American,
13 Jan. 2026
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This summer, the Lab was chock full of gear, with clever, innovative tests for everything from backpack comfort to headlamp brightness.—
Adam Trenkamp,
Outside,
11 Jan. 2026
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Pre-festival enthusiasm sagged compared to the inaugural year.—
Théoden Janes,
Charlotte Observer,
8 Jan. 2026
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More energy and enthusiasm There were too many times in the first few months of the season when this team looked lethargic.—
Jonas Siegel,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2026
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That indefatigable cheerfulness, even when describing scenes that sound brutal to almost anyone else, ran through the entire interview.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
5 Dec. 2025
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As Milchick, Tillman infused an unnerving cheerfulness into Lumon Industries’ macrodata refinement supervisor, a character who became increasingly central in Season 2.—
Okla Jones,
Essence,
15 Sep. 2025
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Fake Plants Sure, live plants add vibrancy and life to a space, but faux plants (no matter how small or convincing) often just add plastic and dust.—
Sarah Lyon,
The Spruce,
11 Jan. 2026
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From the perspective of vocal downtown residents, a larger neighborhood population is exactly what the double-decker downtown needs to bring vibrancy to both levels.—
Jared Kaufman,
Twin Cities,
11 Jan. 2026
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Since its opening, the hotel has infused a fresh vitality in the town.—
Madeline Weinfield,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Jan. 2026
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Phased retirement has proven to help older workers maintain vitality and reduce fatigue.—
Mary Moreland,
Fortune,
31 Dec. 2025
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Using fabric adds movement, liveliness, and drama to a room in a more advanced way than paint can.—
Abby Wolner,
Better Homes & Gardens,
6 Jan. 2026
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Some of these treats date as far back as the 1700s, while others were developed during the penny-pinching of the Great Depression or the liveliness of the 1950s.—
Mack Swenson,
Southern Living,
4 Dec. 2025
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But this isn't without its compromises on brightness, vibrance, contrast, and color accuracy.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
21 Dec. 2025
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The New Yorker loves and fetishizes its traditions (the monocled fop Eustace Tilley, that stately but sensual Adobe Caslon font), but the magazine’s ultimate tradition is cutting through the scrim of contemporary noise to look reality in the eye, presenting it to the reader with a no-fuss vibrance.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
1 Dec. 2025
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The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which determined each year's nominees until they were deposed as the deciding committee in 2022 in the wake of a scandal, revised its rules around animation in 2014.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
12 Jan. 2026
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The Motion Picture Sound Editors has revealed the nominations for its 73rd annual Golden Reel Awards in categories spanning feature film, television, animation, computer entertainment and student productions.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
12 Jan. 2026
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“Exuberance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exuberance. Accessed 18 Jan. 2026.
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