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
Interjection
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
Noun
Topics include improving meetings (oh hallelujah!), the pitfalls of charisma and how to avoid that trap, navigating bureaucracy, and how to stop chasing perfectionism. Toni Fitzgerald, Forbes.com, 26 July 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hallelujah
Interjection
  • The rules changed completely four years ago, and hey, look at that, Alabama and Georgia are gettable.
    Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • But hey, whiskey nerds are gonna whiskey nerd and whiskey sellers are gonna gouge.
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 28 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • For three-quarters of its pages, the book reads like a paean to dope, a lyrical testament to the transcendent bliss of the first time using, and to the futile effort to recapture it.
    Scott Stossel, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Through their on-camera interviews, passion and reverence for cinema comes clearly through, making the film a touching paean to the power of the artform and the people behind it.
    Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Further down the lineup, Friday has Bieber collaborator and indie fave Dijon alongside the melodic dirges of Ethel Cain.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The Season 3 finale of the sci-fi series delivers on that promise, unfolding with the solemn rhythm of a funeral dirge.
    JP Mangalindan, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
Interjection
  • Depends on location — Phoenix’s school is ZAY-vier, while Tucson’s San Xavier del Bac Mission is San hah-VEE-air.
    Laura Daniella Sepulveda, AZCentral.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Rodriguez caught Valkyria on the top rope and finished her off wit ha Tejada Bomb.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The Duke of York retreated from public life in November 2019 after a car crash interview with the BBC about his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, but attended the requiem mass at Westminster Cathedral on Tuesday afternoon.
    Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Like many of the 27 tracks on her Grammy-winning album of the year, her Cowboy Carter and Rodeo Chitlin’ Circuit Tour is a requiem to Black artists who have helped shape country music and a reclamation of Americana for those who have been shut out.
    Megan Thomas, CNN Money, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • Told through empathetic interviews with his bandmates and family, Struebing’s ordeal becomes a tale of partial redemption and a lament about the failure of our justice system to meet the mental-health needs of people caught up in it.
    Judy Berman, Time, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The same lament was played during Queen Elizabeth's funeral in 2022.
    Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Revered by all three Abrahamic religions, the psalms were often recited, read, and sung in routine worship.
    Brendan Ruberry, semafor.com, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Archbishop Bernard Hebda addressed some 2,000 people at the vigil, where psalms were sung and the silences burrowed deep in the wide room.
    Jesse Bedayn, Twin Cities, 28 Aug. 2025

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