variants also hurrah or hurray
as in hey
how delightful "Hooray!" he cried when he heard that his team had won

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hooray
Interjection
  • And hey, maybe Versant will buy all those unwanted cable channels anyway.
    Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 14 May 2025
  • But hey, her Texas accent was pretty good, at least to my northerner ear.
    Lizzie Logan, Vulture, 2 May 2025
Interjection
  • Su trabajo ha sido reconocido con premios de Florida Society of News Editors y Society for Profesional Journalists.
    Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 22 May 2025
  • Stellar Blade was one of my favorite games of last year, a stellar (ha) action adventure title that did not deserve the culture war nonsense that surrounded it.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
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“Hooray.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hooray. Accessed 28 May. 2025.

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