as in excited
being in a state of increased activity or agitation
exhausted from a hectic day at the office
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Recent Examples of hectic
Black Friday candle sales are bountiful during this time of year, which is just one thing to thank the retail gods for during a hectic season.
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Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 29 Oct. 2025
While salad may have been on the menu during the hectic day, the evening's eats were much more extravagant and fitting for the event.
—Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
The hectic nature of it all has not gone unnoticed, with talent being whisked back and forth around the capital to events often happening simultaneously.
—Alex Ritman, Variety, 17 Oct. 2025
In July, Lowe slighted the Kings for their hectic situation.
—Ricardo Klein, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025
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Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 29 Oct. 2025
While salad may have been on the menu during the hectic day, the evening's eats were much more extravagant and fitting for the event.
—Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
The hectic nature of it all has not gone unnoticed, with talent being whisked back and forth around the capital to events often happening simultaneously.
—Alex Ritman, Variety, 17 Oct. 2025
In July, Lowe slighted the Kings for their hectic situation.
—Ricardo Klein, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for hectic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hectic
Adjective
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No pretending to be too cool to be excited, just vibing and living in the moment.—
Stephanie Sengwe,
PEOPLE,
5 Nov. 2025
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Now Lomax is excited for future opportunities to work with other brands.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
5 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Their aurora borealis tours include midnight snacks as well as coffee and tea, plus access to a cozy campfire and a heated yurt.—
Mae Hamilton,
Travel + Leisure,
1 Nov. 2025
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Musk, who helped start OpenAI in 2015, is in a heated legal dispute with Altman and now runs competing artificial intelligence startup xAI.—
Lora Kolodny,
CNBC,
31 Oct. 2025
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Locked away in an old house in Montana, her increasingly agitated and erratic behavior leaves her companion, Jackson, played by Pattinson, worried and helpless.—
Karla Rodriguez,
Footwear News,
3 Nov. 2025
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In this effective, no-nonsense chiller, a couple – one with an escalating form of parasomnia (a sleep disturbance that leads to fugue-like sleep walking) – seek and don’t get some R&R together and wind up arguing more and getting more agitated as freaky things start to happen.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
24 Oct. 2025
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Each of those reached a new deal without a blackout albeit some did so with some frenzied moments as deadlines loomed.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
3 Nov. 2025
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The 2000s Sacramento Kings star guard looks fit enough to curl off a screen and coolly drop in an 18-footer jumper in front of a frenzied home playoff crowd, but Bibby does his basketball work now with a whistle.—
Joe Davidson,
Sacbee.com,
2 Nov. 2025
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“Hectic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hectic. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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