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as in ecstasies
a state of overwhelming usually pleasurable emotion
it took days for the high of the World Series win to wear off
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Recent Examples of highs
Bullion hit fresh highs this week, with spot values extending their record run above the $3,500 mark into the middle of the week.
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Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2025
Tucson experienced 112 days with highs of at least 100 degrees, another record.
—John Leos, AZCentral.com, 3 Sep. 2025
The open sound concept of the Amiron Zero enables the natural perception of a person’s surroundings while still managing to deliver precise highs and bass with minimal sound loss.
—Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Audio quality has been tuned up with AI Sound Boost for cleaner highs, deeper bass, and minimal distortion at high volume.
—Stackcommerce Team, PC Magazine, 3 Sep. 2025
Instead, highs will remain in the low- to mid-90s.
—Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
The highs can be higher basically than anywhere else, but the lows really can be rock bottom.
—Aaliyan Mohammed, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
And though the two countries have lowered levies on each other from punishing highs earlier this year, the current levels are nevertheless having consequences, with China importing almost no energy from the US last month while a powerhouse provincial economy is in the doldrums.
—Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Mortgage rates have remained elevated since 2023 and home prices are at record highs, locking out many millennials and Gen Z buyers from the housing market.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2025
Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2025
Tucson experienced 112 days with highs of at least 100 degrees, another record.
—John Leos, AZCentral.com, 3 Sep. 2025
The open sound concept of the Amiron Zero enables the natural perception of a person’s surroundings while still managing to deliver precise highs and bass with minimal sound loss.
—Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Audio quality has been tuned up with AI Sound Boost for cleaner highs, deeper bass, and minimal distortion at high volume.
—Stackcommerce Team, PC Magazine, 3 Sep. 2025
Instead, highs will remain in the low- to mid-90s.
—Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
The highs can be higher basically than anywhere else, but the lows really can be rock bottom.
—Aaliyan Mohammed, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
And though the two countries have lowered levies on each other from punishing highs earlier this year, the current levels are nevertheless having consequences, with China importing almost no energy from the US last month while a powerhouse provincial economy is in the doldrums.
—Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Mortgage rates have remained elevated since 2023 and home prices are at record highs, locking out many millennials and Gen Z buyers from the housing market.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for highs
Noun
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Will skies be clear Sunday night?—
Doyle Rice,
USA Today,
4 Sep. 2025
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As the second-brightest object in Earth’s skies behind only the Sun, the Moon’s close proximity explains why no other star, planet, satellite, or galaxy can outshine it.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
4 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Have a Project One of the absolute joys of long-distance backpacking is silence, or an escape from the onslaught of incessant inputs that constitute modern life.—
Grayson Haver Currin,
Outside,
2 Sep. 2025
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In this way, A Truce That Is Not Peace reads like a culmination of Toews’s career-long project of keeping her family members alive—their joys as well as their sadness.—
Kristen Martin,
The Atlantic,
27 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Neon lights and a checkerboard stage added to the ‘80s vibe of the song, while a musician playing a keytar with hair-teased-to-heavens cemented the influence of the decade on Doja’s sound.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
8 Sep. 2025
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Thank heavens for Nucor , which still creates them.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
7 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The web of secrets and confessions, schemes and counterplots, short-term pleasures and far-reaching decisions, are couched in dialogue that is pugnacious, vulnerable, comedic, and sometimes richly poetic, and which feels as spontaneous as it is carefully crafted.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
4 Sep. 2025
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Despite something of a false opening promise, Last Rites is appropriately terrifying, far more successful on a scare-by-scare basis than the second or third films and a really frothy return to the aesthetic pleasures of Wan’s first Conjuring.—
Gregory Nussen,
Deadline,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Haunted Scream Park opening weekend 'Tis the season for frights and delights!—
Caroline Ritzie,
The Enquirer,
3 Sep. 2025
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Some might be familiar with sour cream biscuits served in miniature form at classic Southern restaurants as just a nibble to snack on while at the table; others might remember their grandmothers mixing up the simple delights on lazy Sunday afternoons.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
2 Sep. 2025
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“Highs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/highs. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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