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hooray

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variants: also hurrah or hurray

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how delightful
  • "Hooray!" he cried when he heard that his team had won

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“Hooray.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hooray. Accessed 30 Oct. 2020.

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