as in enthusiastically
in an enthusiastic manner
her last employer sang her praises so exuberantly that we just had to hire her
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Recent Examples of exuberantly
The show followed an exuberantly wealthy family who became penniless overnight after falling victim to fraud.
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Jack Dunn, Variety, 5 Apr. 2026
That’s a nod to another tradition that’s perhaps most exuberantly followed in the colonial city of Antigua, Guatemala, where miles of these carpets are created for Holy Week — twice on Good Friday.
—ABC News, 1 Apr. 2026
Yet despite that apparent simplification, the trenches themselves were in line with Lee’s exuberantly experimental creative urges; playful, ingenious, complex, and witty.
—Luke Leitch, Vogue, 2 Mar. 2026
For his part, and most fittingly, Valentino creative director Michele will be planting the exuberantly luxe Valentino standard yet again in Paris, January 26-29, at Valentino’s beloved Haute Couture fashion week.
—Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
No romance is in the offing between the two — Dan is straight and Tamma is exuberantly profane about being gay — so their bond is built almost entirely around climbing.
—Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2026
Stewart, who has been a Chanel ambassador since 2013 and has therefore worn the designs of all three of the brand’s post-Coco Chanel designers, saw a realism in the models’ mix of casual clothes and exuberantly formal ones, with jackets thrown over arms and newspapers stuffed into handbags.
—Rachel Tashjian, CNN Money, 3 Dec. 2025
Hell, clearly the most violent of the realms, makes for the most exuberantly entertaining of the books, filled with action, fantastical monsters, and occasional farce.
—Claudia Roth Pierpont, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
Brazilian maverick Kleber Mendonça Filho’s exuberantly idiosyncratic ‘70s political thriller, The Secret Agent, is the work of a singular artist with a flawless track record over four narrative features and one elegiac documentary, Pictures of Ghosts, an unofficial companion piece to the new film.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 20 Nov. 2025
Jack Dunn, Variety, 5 Apr. 2026
That’s a nod to another tradition that’s perhaps most exuberantly followed in the colonial city of Antigua, Guatemala, where miles of these carpets are created for Holy Week — twice on Good Friday.
—ABC News, 1 Apr. 2026
Yet despite that apparent simplification, the trenches themselves were in line with Lee’s exuberantly experimental creative urges; playful, ingenious, complex, and witty.
—Luke Leitch, Vogue, 2 Mar. 2026
For his part, and most fittingly, Valentino creative director Michele will be planting the exuberantly luxe Valentino standard yet again in Paris, January 26-29, at Valentino’s beloved Haute Couture fashion week.
—Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
No romance is in the offing between the two — Dan is straight and Tamma is exuberantly profane about being gay — so their bond is built almost entirely around climbing.
—Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2026
Stewart, who has been a Chanel ambassador since 2013 and has therefore worn the designs of all three of the brand’s post-Coco Chanel designers, saw a realism in the models’ mix of casual clothes and exuberantly formal ones, with jackets thrown over arms and newspapers stuffed into handbags.
—Rachel Tashjian, CNN Money, 3 Dec. 2025
Hell, clearly the most violent of the realms, makes for the most exuberantly entertaining of the books, filled with action, fantastical monsters, and occasional farce.
—Claudia Roth Pierpont, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
Brazilian maverick Kleber Mendonça Filho’s exuberantly idiosyncratic ‘70s political thriller, The Secret Agent, is the work of a singular artist with a flawless track record over four narrative features and one elegiac documentary, Pictures of Ghosts, an unofficial companion piece to the new film.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 20 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for exuberantly
enthusiastically
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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
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