as in to delight
to feel or express joy or triumph after their first World Series championship in 86 years, Bostonians felt that they had earned the right to exuberate with abandon

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  • Previous videos showing young kids reacting to dads getting new haircuts, and one of a wife responding with shock to her husband shaving, have delighted the internet before.
    Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 May 2025
  • And two and a half centuries later, Jane’s stories continue to delight readers and inspire creators like Hornby and Langan.
    Maira Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2025
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  • Make networking, socializing and participating in activities that bring you joy your priorities.
    Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 29 June 2024
  • Acevedo’s treatment of magic as an everyday possibility is compelling, but there is also magic in the wonder, surprise, frustrations, and joys the characters experience in their relationships with one another.
    Nicole Chung, Time, 25 July 2023
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  • Messi, at 35, led his country to glory against France, winning soccer’s ultimate prize in a pulsating match that finished 3-3 after extra time and had to be settled by a nerve-wracking penalty shootout.
    Patrick Smith, NBC News, 19 Dec. 2022
  • If Harris can bring together a family with Indian, African, and Jewish heritage, America can glory in its diversity.
    Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 26 Aug. 2020
Verb
  • After two years of nonstop organizing, Baum had triumphed.
    Amy Brecount White, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 May 2025
  • The history of marking an 1862 battle in which Mexico triumphed over the French has more staying power in the U.S. than south of the border.
    Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 5 May 2025
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“Exuberate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exuberate. Accessed 22 May. 2025.

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