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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
Taxes, meanwhile, are at multi-decade highs.
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Hanna Ziady, CNN Money, 23 June 2026
Monday is a #Top10WxDay in the Twin Cities, featuring a mix of sun and clouds and highs around 80 degrees.
—Lisa Meadows, CBS News, 22 June 2026
Temperature highs will be in the low-to-mid 90s and peak afternoon heat index values at 102-107 degrees.
—Garfield Hylton, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 June 2026
The heat continues through Thursday as overnight low temps climb to around 70 degrees and afternoon highs run between 100 and 105.
—Sean MacAday, Sacbee.com, 22 June 2026
Iron Mountain and Equinix are now about 1% off from their spring highs.
—Jason Gewirtz, CNBC, 22 June 2026
The Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode has circulated guidance to member brands, WWD has learned, urging them to comply with workplace safety requirements as temperatures are expected to reach record highs.
—Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 22 June 2026
His reign has had notable highs but chastening lows.
—Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 16 June 2026
From northern Washington to California’s Central Valley, high temperatures ranging from the mid-80s to well above 100 degrees Fahrenheit could challenge or break a dozen daily record highs, including in the Portland and Seattle metro areas.
—Francie Ebert, NBC news, 15 June 2026
Hanna Ziady, CNN Money, 23 June 2026
Monday is a #Top10WxDay in the Twin Cities, featuring a mix of sun and clouds and highs around 80 degrees.
—Lisa Meadows, CBS News, 22 June 2026
Temperature highs will be in the low-to-mid 90s and peak afternoon heat index values at 102-107 degrees.
—Garfield Hylton, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 June 2026
The heat continues through Thursday as overnight low temps climb to around 70 degrees and afternoon highs run between 100 and 105.
—Sean MacAday, Sacbee.com, 22 June 2026
Iron Mountain and Equinix are now about 1% off from their spring highs.
—Jason Gewirtz, CNBC, 22 June 2026
The Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode has circulated guidance to member brands, WWD has learned, urging them to comply with workplace safety requirements as temperatures are expected to reach record highs.
—Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 22 June 2026
His reign has had notable highs but chastening lows.
—Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 16 June 2026
From northern Washington to California’s Central Valley, high temperatures ranging from the mid-80s to well above 100 degrees Fahrenheit could challenge or break a dozen daily record highs, including in the Portland and Seattle metro areas.
—Francie Ebert, NBC news, 15 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for highs
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But by the New York Times bestselling author and pop culture essayist’s own admission, no topic has loomed larger or longer in his mind than the ironies, ecstasies and singularity of American football.—
Zack Ruskin,
San Francisco Chronicle,
27 Jan. 2026
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Here, a quilt flies over the spacious skies of Utah’s Dead Horse Point State Park (an area threatened by drilling permits approved by the US Bureau of Land Management) bearing Wes Gordon’s Georgia, Ashlynn Park’s Arkansas, and Sergio Hudson’s South Carolina, among others.—
Alexandra Hildreth,
Vogue,
23 June 2026
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As the episode ends, the gray skies are burning off and the sun is peeking out on a world that Rhaenyra will struggle to bear.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
22 June 2026
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One of the few joys of social media is watching someone experience something that brings them pure joy for the first time.—
Sam Stone,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
19 June 2026
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What to do in Boston's South End One of the joys of Boston's South End is simply going for perhaps one of the most picturesque walks in the city.—
Shannon McMahon,
Condé Nast Traveler,
17 June 2026
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Oh, heavens to Betsy, not the chest hair!—
Lacey Rose,
HollywoodReporter,
13 June 2026
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Yes, the summer festival season is here (thank heavens).—
Randy McMullen,
Mercury News,
28 May 2026
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The colors, pains, pleasures, smells, tastes and sounds, the what-it’s-like of being conscious, are not private inner bits and blobs that philosophers call qualia, floating in a theatre of the mind.—
Andréa Morris,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2026
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As Ariane Cruz notes in The Color of Kink, many people find pleasures and healing in kink.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 June 2026
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We’re surrounded by sensory delights, and a new book argues that being more attuned to them could be a balm for digital exhaustion.—
Patricia Marx,
New Yorker,
17 June 2026
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The psychologists, economists, and happiness advocates have saddled the rest of us with an impoverished and incomplete picture of gratification and its distinctive delights.—
Ian Bogost,
The Atlantic,
16 June 2026
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“Highs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/highs. Accessed 23 Jun. 2026.
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