as in to delight
to feel or express joy or triumph the winners of the Super Bowl spent the next week exulting in their victory

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Recent Examples of exult This one, Washington’s fourth this season, left you feeling agita rather than exulted. David Aldridge, The Athletic, 16 Dec. 2024 The real problem, though, was that my college years fell in the middle of a triumphalist era, with the Soviet Union smoldering on the ash heap and America exulting in its victory over history. Michael Moynihan, airmail.news, 26 Oct. 2024 Now, however, the shoe is on the other foot, as elements of the Left’s hard core constituencies exult in their law-breaking, vandalize and destroy property and bully those who disagree with them. Jeff Robbins, Boston Herald, 10 June 2024 Close chances and corresponding roars continued, the crowd exulting in a moment long overdue. Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for exult
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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
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  • By then, however, it was firmly expected that Brazil would triumph.
    Adam Crafton, New York Times, 21 May 2025
  • May 11, 2025 Locked in a tense battle, Woods triumphed in the playoff, securing his second consecutive PGA Championship title.
    Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 May 2025
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  • Fans can rejoice in knowing that items like the Alley Special, with pepperoni, meatballs, sausage, green peppers, black olives, onions, mushrooms, and extra cheese, will return to the menu unscathed.
    Colin Wrenn, Denver Post, 13 May 2025
  • And Native Americans rejoiced at connecting with a piece of their past.
    Kevin Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 May 2025

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