as in excited
showing urgent desire or interest
he was gung ho about his accounting class
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Recent Examples of gung ho
The studio was really gung ho about the film—top movie star, top TV star.
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Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 16 June 2024
This place has been a coaching graveyard, but Canales is gung ho about his new job anyway.
—Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 2 Feb. 2024
The government has often been gung ho in its health-education efforts: the U.S.D.A.’s nutritional guides and food pyramids, seventies Saturday-morning-cartoon P.S.A.s, Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! campaign.
—Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
Other researchers are less gung ho about such heady prospects.
—Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 10 Aug. 2023
There are merely people who are gung ho about it, and people who would prefer for various reasons to soft-pedal it.
—Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 2 June 2023
Everybody’s just gung ho to do this.
—William E. Ketchum Iii, Rolling Stone, 6 Jan. 2023
Even financial firms, perhaps the most gung ho about return-to-office policies, have mostly caved, resigning themselves to a hybrid future that has, in many cases, stalled out at two-day-a-week callbacks.
—Curbed, 15 June 2022
To celebrate 30 hugely successful years in the busines, the company has picked out 10 films from its library that best represents its rise to , including multiple franchise-starters and one decidedly un-gung ho prestige moment.
—Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Nov. 2022
Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 16 June 2024
This place has been a coaching graveyard, but Canales is gung ho about his new job anyway.
—Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 2 Feb. 2024
The government has often been gung ho in its health-education efforts: the U.S.D.A.’s nutritional guides and food pyramids, seventies Saturday-morning-cartoon P.S.A.s, Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! campaign.
—Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
Other researchers are less gung ho about such heady prospects.
—Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 10 Aug. 2023
There are merely people who are gung ho about it, and people who would prefer for various reasons to soft-pedal it.
—Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 2 June 2023
Everybody’s just gung ho to do this.
—William E. Ketchum Iii, Rolling Stone, 6 Jan. 2023
Even financial firms, perhaps the most gung ho about return-to-office policies, have mostly caved, resigning themselves to a hybrid future that has, in many cases, stalled out at two-day-a-week callbacks.
—Curbed, 15 June 2022
To celebrate 30 hugely successful years in the busines, the company has picked out 10 films from its library that best represents its rise to , including multiple franchise-starters and one decidedly un-gung ho prestige moment.
—Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Nov. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gung ho
Adjective
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In the comment section, fans were excited to see an intimate piece of her life.—
Ingrid Vasquez,
People.com,
1 July 2025
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According to recent research from the global consumer research platform, GWI, 60% of consumers are excited for the further development of AI tools.—
Gary Drenik,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
Adjective
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Trump has been an avid proponent of reshoring U.S. manufacturing, using tariffs as a leverage to convince companies to build plants in the U.S. and attacking Apple for manufacturing its iPhones in Asia.—
Danny Bakst,
Fortune,
26 June 2025
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Residents who live near a fishing location, spend a lot of time near the water or are avid boaters are encouraged to get involved.—
Joe Rassel,
The Orlando Sentinel,
25 June 2025
Adjective
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The 33-year-old state assemblyman has ensnared a wide net of seasoned billionaires and enthusiastic young activists, presented as a regular New Yorker who lived in Africa as a child.—
Alexandra Bregman,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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Diamond and her husband were enthusiastic volunteers since the 1990s for a local historic preservation organization, Historic Boulder, Inc.—
Colleen Slevin,
Chicago Tribune,
30 June 2025
Adjective
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Comprised mostly of phishing, but also malware, threats, the domains in question have been created by cybercriminals seeking to benefit from the high media profile of Prime Day and the anticipated flood of consumers eager to grab a bargain.—
Davey Winder,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2025
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Undeterred, Gustav offers the role, written for Nora, to the young Hollywood star Rachel Kemp (Elle Fanning), dropping the eager American actress right in the middle of the complicated Borg family dynamics.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
1 July 2025
Adjective
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But perhaps the most persuasive testimony came from Mrs. Hall herself, who embodied the defense’s portrait of a loyal, unsuspecting wife, home alone and anxious over her husband’s mysterious disappearance.—
Jordan Runtagh,
People.com,
27 June 2025
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Other dogs, especially those that are anxious or suffer from separation anxiety, might find comfort in your scent.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 June 2025
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