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
  • And, hey, that might even mean Wilson could find himself back in Tier 3 of Sando’s rankings next year.
    Mike Sando, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Or, hey, visit any of the local Asian markets like Mo’s Food Market (2402 W. Clybourn St.), Mei Hua (11066 W. National Ave., West Allis) and New Asian Supermarket (10704 W. Oklahoma Ave., West Allis) to find your favorites.
    Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 19 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The celebrated animated paean to small-town Texas aired its final episode in 2009.
    Ryan Coleman Updated, EW.com, 25 July 2025
  • Karl Johnson makes an excellent Firs, the ancient servant who regrets the freeing of the serfs and who alternates between dignified paeans to the old days and mumbling streams of profanities.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Wylde seemed right at home recreating the droning opening dirge as the band slowed down into a stellar stoney groove throughout a standout moment Saturday night.
    Jim Ryan, Forbes.com, 26 July 2025
  • As Black Sabbath’s doomsayer-in-chief, Osbourne could summon a true sense of terror in his keening cries in a way that heightened the band’s muscular dirges.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 22 July 2025
Interjection
  • Beyoncé almost fell out ha car 💔💔💔 pic.twitter.com/qzew6zqJUC — BABY SHIESTY (@themainopp) June 29, 2025 The music was stopped and the car was slowly lowered to the stage.
    Lucia I Suarez Sang, CBS News, 29 June 2025
  • With like a honey packet squirted on top around the campfire, Paddy: ha.
    Outside Online, Outside Online, 30 July 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Column Plug Two Rollie Pemberton A requiem for Trugoy and a rebirth for De La Soul. Column Unwritten Recipes Chantal Braganza Anyone who’s lived long enough to learn to feed themselves likely has some kind of biographical dish.
    Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 4 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Perfectionism often gets misunderstood as an unstoppable striving for excellence, a quality that many of us would love to (half-heartedly) lament.
    Caroline Mimbs Nyce, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Not least, Mailman is a lament for the decline of service as an American ideal—for the cultural twilight of the Halloween job: those occupations, such as police officer, firefighter, Marine, and, yes, postal worker, whose worth is not measured first and foremost in dollars but in public esteem.
    Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 1 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Kretzmer-Seed felt strongly about the inclusion of psalms from the Hallel service as well as a Spanish-Portuguese prayer for those in captivity, which was originally written for victims of the Spanish Inquisition.
    Marla Brown Fogelman, Sun Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2025
  • On Jewish holidays, the Hallel prayer is recited in Shul as a psalm of praise and thanksgiving and collective expression of gratitude for GDs miracles.
    Rafael James, Sun Sentinel, 24 June 2025

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