as in hey
how delightful hallelujah, the bank is approving our loan application

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hallelujah

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Recent Examples of hallelujah
Noun
Read: What parents of boys should know Hess does all of this without sharing a drop of advice—hallelujah. Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 5 May 2025 Said it over and over like a preacher singing hallelujah. Philip Martin, arkansasonline.com, 13 Sep. 2024 For me, especially as an A&R person, that’s hallelujah: Let the creative lead and the rest will follow. Jem Aswad, Variety, 4 Sep. 2024 Get The Recipe 10 of 40 Shout Hallelujah Potato Salad What better time to shout hallelujah than Easter Sunday? Jorie Nicole McDonald, Southern Living, 11 Feb. 2024 There’d be a brief silence, before all the voices flooded in and the whole circle would catch fire like an unending wall of the most resounding hallelujah imaginable. Jack Chang, Sacramento Bee, 25 Jan. 2024 And, as the hoarse hallelujahs from their fans illustrated, the Lakers now have some new magic of their own. Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023 At end times, will there be a chorus of hallelujahs or ... David Harsanyi, National Review, 16 Mar. 2023 This bike even features a fan—hallelujah. Diana Kelly Levey, Health, 20 Feb. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hallelujah
Interjection
  • But hey, her Texas accent was pretty good, at least to my northerner ear.
    Lizzie Logan, Vulture, 2 May 2025
  • So, hey, Miami, how about a good, old-fashioned porch party?
    Helena Alonso Paisley, Miami Herald, 29 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The Secret Life of a Cemetery is a paean to the renowned Parisian cemetery, Père Lachaise.
    Heller McAlpin, NPR, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Nigel Slater’s paean to the likes of St. John and the River Café, places that still hold sway today.
    Amiel Stanek, Bon Appetit Magazine, 4 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • It’s remained in the company’s repertoire for decades, and the use of Coltrane’s elegy for the love of her life has made that music into two dirges, one for husband John Coltrane and another for the woman on the invisible mourner’s bench honoring and channeling him for the rest of her days.
    Harmony Holiday, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Over time, dirge came to mean a funeral song or lament.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
Interjection
  • Su trabajo ha sido reconocido con premios de Florida Society of News Editors y Society for Profesional Journalists.
    Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 13 May 2025
  • Outside: The greatest work boondoggle of all time, ha!
    Paddy O'Connell, Outside Online, 1 May 2025
Noun
  • The album thematically focuses on the idea of the afterlife in both a literal and figurative sense, with a touch of Carlile's anecdotal songwriting and requiems for artists' past.
    Madison E. Goldberg, People.com, 5 Apr. 2025
  • Whether a requiem is due for rom-coms or not, in the meantime there's at least a conveyor belt of cringe to feast upon.
    Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The long-standing lament that Latin American conservatives, centrists, and leftists share is that whereas the United States comes to the region to punish and lecture, China comes to trade.
    Will Freeman, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Deeply layered and emotionally charged, the work reads like a visual lament, for what’s been lost, what still remains, and the unresolved stories that continue to flow beneath the surface.
    Nel-Olivia Waga, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The funeral of Pope Francis began with a short musical chant and psalm spoken in Latin after an open Book of the Gospels had been placed on top of Pope Francis’ closed coffin carried by pallbearers from inside St. Peter’s and placed on a red carpet on the edge of the church steps.
    Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 26 Apr. 2025
  • The faithful will recite several religious verses, including psalm 22, ‘The Lord is my Shepherd,’ during the service.
    Caitlin Danaher, CNN Money, 23 Apr. 2025

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