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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
The result is an intimate, melancholy, frank, and surprising paean to reading and books.
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Donna Seaman
June 18,
Literary Hub,
18 June 2025
The Renaissance’s old love language — the naughty puns, the sighs of longing and strategies of seduction, the paeans to the beauty of beloveds masked by fanciful Greek and Latin names — had grown obsolete long before Millay’s time.
After learning of the loss of the iron ore freighter Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior and the deaths of all 29 crew members from Newsweek, Gord lifted passages from the article and put them to a dreamy dirge: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
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Ryan Craig,
Forbes.com,
13 June 2025
Though it was written around the time of Malibu’s Woolsey fire, the 14-minute long dirge that encompasses flames in Malibu and a cougar that roams the hills took on a new and sinister meaning in the aftermath of the more recent fires.
More than a century later, jazz pianist and composer Bobby West gives her what she was denied: a requiem.
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Philip Martin,
Arkansas Online,
19 June 2025
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.
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.
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Rafael James,
Sun Sentinel,
24 June 2025
We're bound by the same beliefs, the same psalms, and the same sacred pursuit of liberty.
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