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Recent Examples of joyfully
Growing up, one woman watched her family's dog race joyfully down the hill toward their farmhouse.
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Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025
An emotional Instagram reel posted by her daughter, LaTinique, 22, shows her mother, Crystal, 44, playing joyfully with her young grandson, Aziel Chace, who is 18 months old.
—Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
In the joyfully chaotic Vanek household, Michelle made the trains run on time, orchestrating the weekly routine, which revolved around schoolwork, athletics, family time and church.
—Ted Katauskas, Outside, 23 Sep. 2025
Charlie Kirk traveled the nation, joyfully engaging with everyone interested in good-faith debate.
—Chad De Guzman, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
But Wolfe’s good point, in his writing on architecture, was that there was an immense reservoir of idiomatic American style that deserved to be taken as seriously—or, more to the point, as joyfully—as any European art-school dogma.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
Jim, who is joyfully playful with a touch of eccentricity, insists he hasn't been motivated by profits.
—Russ Wiles, AZCentral.com, 23 Aug. 2025
After Kent passed away, the group transformed into a weekly run to grieve, to offer each other quiet support, and to keep Kent’s spirit joyfully alive, one mile at a time.
—Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 12 Aug. 2025
Known for its bold, joyfully offbeat designs, the brand delivers a whimsical take on everyday earrings with dangling freshwater pearls and seashell accents.
—Lauren Alexis Fisher, Footwear News, 7 Aug. 2025
Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025
An emotional Instagram reel posted by her daughter, LaTinique, 22, shows her mother, Crystal, 44, playing joyfully with her young grandson, Aziel Chace, who is 18 months old.
—Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
In the joyfully chaotic Vanek household, Michelle made the trains run on time, orchestrating the weekly routine, which revolved around schoolwork, athletics, family time and church.
—Ted Katauskas, Outside, 23 Sep. 2025
Charlie Kirk traveled the nation, joyfully engaging with everyone interested in good-faith debate.
—Chad De Guzman, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
But Wolfe’s good point, in his writing on architecture, was that there was an immense reservoir of idiomatic American style that deserved to be taken as seriously—or, more to the point, as joyfully—as any European art-school dogma.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
Jim, who is joyfully playful with a touch of eccentricity, insists he hasn't been motivated by profits.
—Russ Wiles, AZCentral.com, 23 Aug. 2025
After Kent passed away, the group transformed into a weekly run to grieve, to offer each other quiet support, and to keep Kent’s spirit joyfully alive, one mile at a time.
—Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 12 Aug. 2025
Known for its bold, joyfully offbeat designs, the brand delivers a whimsical take on everyday earrings with dangling freshwater pearls and seashell accents.
—Lauren Alexis Fisher, Footwear News, 7 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for joyfully
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But Pierce Brosnan is the scene-stealer here, joyously leaping into the character of Ron, a former union activist known as Red Ron in his day, still ready to start a protest when needed.—
Caryn James,
HollywoodReporter,
22 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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Candace's slideshow began with a photo of herself posing exuberantly with Valeri, Natasha and Bradley under an elaborate arch of pink roses and green and white hydrangea.—
Ashley Hume,
FOXNews.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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Sports legends, including Michael Jordan, Lawrence Taylor, and Randy Moss, attended the game, cheering exuberantly after UNC took a 7-0 lead with an opening drive touchdown.—
Matthew Couden,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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No Mob boss, cheerfully decreeing that an inconvenient witness be rubbed out, could be more resolute.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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On a good day, the Undervale houses maybe two living human guests and at least a couple dozen haunts of all demographics, time periods and modes of death — including the brother Katherine inherited it all from, the cheerfully feckless Nathan (Will Forte).—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
19 Sep. 2025
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That, in turn, jars an earlier memory of happier days in the same car, giddily documenting on camcorder their initial move to New Orleans.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Sep. 2025
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The kiss became a key piece of a prosecutorial propaganda campaign, giddily inflamed by the tabloid media, that framed Knox as a perverse, cold-blooded killer.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
20 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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Daniels after both of his TDs sought out the TV cameras just outside the end zone and merrily mocked FSU’s famous war chant, an echo of the swagger of Canes teams past.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
5 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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The Jays will, happily, hand him the ball.—
Mitch Bannon,
New York Times,
6 Oct. 2025
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The winning formula had viewers returning to the show's fictional Louisiana town long after Edward and Bella had their happily ever after.—
Matt Cabral,
Entertainment Weekly,
4 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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But a reporter working on a story like mine would never request or permit an escort—after all, how can someone talk freely about a subject while being observed, however cheerily, by the government?—
Mark Ellwood,
Robb Report,
10 Aug. 2025
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Wesley would rack up accomplishments with a sparkling air of perfection, then march cheerily forward.—
Michael Schulman,
New Yorker,
6 Aug. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Joyfully.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/joyfully. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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