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Recent Examples of giddily
Tech was even still cool in late 2022 when OpenAI released ChatGPT and everyone started giddily re-doing Taylor Swift lyrics as Shakespearean sonnets.
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Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
25 June 2026
Following that start, catcher Dalton Rushing giddily described Yamamoto’s brilliance, noting that even the reigning World Series MVP was able to experiment and try out some new sequencing while flexing his dominance.
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Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
13 June 2026
In their gowns and bowties, guests giddily slurp mounds of glinting caviar off the back of their hand.
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Sam Stone,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
2 June 2026
The Dodgers just went back-to-back, and everyone at the championship rally — including Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts, Dave Roberts, Andrew Friedman and even Walter himself — giddily talked about a threepeat.
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Bill Shaikin,
Los Angeles Times,
12 May 2026
Four months and one day later, long after the sun set and the crowds had dispersed from the 152nd running of the Kentucky Derby, DeVaux and her family giddily tromped across the mud of the Churchill Downs track to the backside.
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Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
9 May 2026
Trump, meanwhile, giddily celebrated the censorship.
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Marlow Stern,
Variety,
1 May 2026
When not giddily tearing apart the rom-com – a key conversation between Charlie and Emma happens in the trope-iest of cinematic eateries, a diner – Borgli asks really major thematic questions with his controversial subject matter.
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Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
31 Mar. 2026
But for all its twists and turns, Boston and her cast, writers, and directors never let up on the promise of the show’s title and the skin-crawling sensations the pilot’s opening scenes (of Rachel and Nicky’s wedding and its insane, bloody aftermath) giddily pile on.
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Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
28 Mar. 2026
Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
25 June 2026
Following that start, catcher Dalton Rushing giddily described Yamamoto’s brilliance, noting that even the reigning World Series MVP was able to experiment and try out some new sequencing while flexing his dominance.
—
Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
13 June 2026
In their gowns and bowties, guests giddily slurp mounds of glinting caviar off the back of their hand.
—
Sam Stone,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
2 June 2026
The Dodgers just went back-to-back, and everyone at the championship rally — including Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts, Dave Roberts, Andrew Friedman and even Walter himself — giddily talked about a threepeat.
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Bill Shaikin,
Los Angeles Times,
12 May 2026
Four months and one day later, long after the sun set and the crowds had dispersed from the 152nd running of the Kentucky Derby, DeVaux and her family giddily tromped across the mud of the Churchill Downs track to the backside.
—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
9 May 2026
Trump, meanwhile, giddily celebrated the censorship.
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Marlow Stern,
Variety,
1 May 2026
When not giddily tearing apart the rom-com – a key conversation between Charlie and Emma happens in the trope-iest of cinematic eateries, a diner – Borgli asks really major thematic questions with his controversial subject matter.
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Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
31 Mar. 2026
But for all its twists and turns, Boston and her cast, writers, and directors never let up on the promise of the show’s title and the skin-crawling sensations the pilot’s opening scenes (of Rachel and Nicky’s wedding and its insane, bloody aftermath) giddily pile on.
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Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
28 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for giddily
Adverb
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There's a joyously wacky energy to this broad comedy on the whole, giving Rudd an interesting arc to play.
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The team joyously celebrated the end of their regular season with a pool party, taco bar and more soccer, a news release stated.
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Uruguay, for their part, joyfully celebrated becoming the second team, after Italy, to win the World Cup twice.
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Our kitchens are joyfully overrun with colorful heirloom tomatoes, juicy peaches, and of course, sweet corn.
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Bond traders have not reacted as exuberantly to the news of the Iran détente as oil traders have.
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What is in tandem here is the exuberantly generative possibility of life itself (SCOBY, water) alongside the very synthetic polymers that are literally wrecking life on an individual and systemic level.
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Golden retrievers remained cheerfully oblivious as usual.
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Among other curiosities were Matthew Howard and Joseph Pereira cheerfully pulverizing Philip Glass’ Fantasy Concerto for Two Timpanists and Orchestra, as well as Boris Allakhverdyan suavely ghosting jazz legend Artie Shaw in his Clarinet Concerto.
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Ideally one composed of your old, gold, merrily-we-roll-along friends.
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Meanwhile, the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder continue to roll merrily along, seemingly intent on winning every championship in the near future.
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Dina Powell McCormick weaves through the crowd, cheerily hugging people and introducing strangers to one another.
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Katie Holmes cheerily takes a phone call while on a walk in New York City on April 15.
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The two key solutions were to hire Bora Milutinović, a jovially unintelligible coach with a history of reclamation projects, and to launch a nearly two-year residency training camp in Orange County.
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Shortly after trumpeter Ethan Marks took to the sidewalk, one of the American Hotel’s current residents leaned out his window and began vocally and jovially mimicking the fragmented and angular notes coming from the instrument.
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Crowe plays Manco Kapak, a nightclub owner from Albania who tells us, in an opening voiceover, that he has been happily settled in the United States for many years.
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My enthusiasm only increased when a three-part Christmas special was announced that same morning, which Tranter happily shared details about.
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“Giddily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/giddily. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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