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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
The Brutalist, for all its idiosyncrasies, was a fairly conventional Oscar player—a classically structured paean to a great man.
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Radhika Seth,
Vogue,
1 Sep. 2025
Witkoff, a real-estate lawyer by training whose apprenticeship in diplomacy has so far produced neither peace in Gaza nor an end to the war in Ukraine, offered a rousing paean to the boss.
There’s nothing shiny and new to get excited about and so the apathy and dirge hasn’t been replaced.
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George Caulkin,
New York Times,
13 Aug. 2025
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.
Lotte Duty Free’s CEO, Kim Dong-ha, is actively strengthening the watches and jewelry category as both domestic and international customer demand for luxury watches and jewelry has boomed.
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.
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Megan Thomas,
CNN Money,
27 June 2025
More than a century later, jazz pianist and composer Bobby West gives her what she was denied: a requiem.
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.
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Marla Brown Fogelman,
Sun Sentinel,
12 Aug. 2025
We're bound by the same beliefs, the same psalms, and the same sacred pursuit of liberty.
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