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Recent Examples of joyfully
Downstairs, a group of Americans are chatting joyfully.
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Lucy Kehoe, AFAR Media, 31 Oct. 2025
Amish are part of the wider Anabaptist movement, which puts heavy emphasis on Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, containing some of his most radical and counter-cultural sayings — to love enemies, live simply, bless persecutors, turn the other cheek and to endure sufferings joyfully.
—Dave Smith, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2025
Not since Mister Rogers has an actual adult human managed to break into that particular canon of cultural fixtures, becoming a household name and shaping the imaginations of millions while still speaking joyfully and directly to the youngest amongst us.
—Samantha Barry, Glamour, 27 Oct. 2025
Beverly hops joyfully across the couple’s farm with her sister Billie—also adopted from Northwest Dog Project—and brings laughter to her family every day with her quirky personality.
—Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
The photographs joyfully corroborate the text’s account of a life that cannot be the case.
—Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
The result is bright, exotic, and joyfully subversive, proving that even the darkest wood can burn so bright.
—Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2025
After weeks of searching with the help of cameras, drones, and animal shelters, Francine was finally found and joyfully reunited with store workers.
—Real-Time News Team, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2025
Rather than mourning, the holiday is about honoring, remembering and joyfully welcoming back the dead with offerings of their favorite foods, drinks, music and personal mementos.
—Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 6 Oct. 2025
Lucy Kehoe, AFAR Media, 31 Oct. 2025
Amish are part of the wider Anabaptist movement, which puts heavy emphasis on Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, containing some of his most radical and counter-cultural sayings — to love enemies, live simply, bless persecutors, turn the other cheek and to endure sufferings joyfully.
—Dave Smith, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2025
Not since Mister Rogers has an actual adult human managed to break into that particular canon of cultural fixtures, becoming a household name and shaping the imaginations of millions while still speaking joyfully and directly to the youngest amongst us.
—Samantha Barry, Glamour, 27 Oct. 2025
Beverly hops joyfully across the couple’s farm with her sister Billie—also adopted from Northwest Dog Project—and brings laughter to her family every day with her quirky personality.
—Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
The photographs joyfully corroborate the text’s account of a life that cannot be the case.
—Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
The result is bright, exotic, and joyfully subversive, proving that even the darkest wood can burn so bright.
—Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2025
After weeks of searching with the help of cameras, drones, and animal shelters, Francine was finally found and joyfully reunited with store workers.
—Real-Time News Team, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2025
Rather than mourning, the holiday is about honoring, remembering and joyfully welcoming back the dead with offerings of their favorite foods, drinks, music and personal mementos.
—Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 6 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for joyfully
Adverb
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They are felt as they are composed, painfully, joyously, cellularly—and they are designed for other biological beings to experience, to connect with, to be animated, provoked and moved by.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Nov. 2025
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My favorite style of Brazilian music is a roda de samba, where musicians play in a circle as the crowd joyously surrounds them at spots like Vaca Atolada or Pedra do Sal.—
Aaron Randolph,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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When large and small crowds in large and small towns gather respectfully, even exuberantly, to register their response to the country’s direction, measuring newsworthiness by body count or damage tallies misses the critical story.—
Nancy Gibbs,
Time,
17 Oct. 2025
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Large and cuddly, charismatic and exuberantly Afro’d, Quest is a real-life version of South Park‘s Chef.—
Touré,
Rolling Stone,
14 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Iasiello, a licensed real estate broker, exhaustively and cheerfully documents his work buying, rehabilitating and flipping these homes, providing daily video diaries of the work and line item breakdowns of the entire cost — and profit — associated with some of his projects.—
Karen Wang,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
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Those fissures burst into the open last week, when Tucker Carlson conducted a friendly interview with the cheerfully white nationalist streamer Nick Fuentes.—
Max Tani,
semafor.com,
3 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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The second is Nouvelle Vague, which giddily depicts the making of the French New Wave classic Breathless; by the end, the entire cast and crew have been driven up the wall by their mercurial director, Jean-Luc Godard (Guillaume Marbeck).—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
4 Nov. 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
Adverb
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The Billboard Holiday Countdown unwraps musical gifts from evergreen stars including Bobby Helms, Burl Ives, Dean Martin, Elvis Presley and Andy Williams mixing merrily with hits by the likes of Justin Bieber, Mariah Carey, Kelly Clarkson, Ariana Grande and Pentatonix.—
Gary Trust,
Billboard,
6 Nov. 2025
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The combination of flavors in this pie is blissful, the sweetness of the apples merrily dancing with the tart edge of the cranberries.—
Cathy Thomas,
Oc Register,
13 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Thankfully, Loki's happily ever after came shortly after the animal shelter posted this video.—
Liz O'Connell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Nov. 2025
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As a childless person who doesn’t teach I’ve been happily unaware that, due to standardized testing requirements that favor close reads of excerpts over whole books, there’s an entire generation of students who have very little contextual framework for the literature they’re being taught in school.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Nov. 2025
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Chenoweth cheerily waved over the rest of the cast for a group shot, and a handler produced Donegan’s Miss America sash and tiara.—
Dan Greene,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
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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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“Joyfully.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/joyfully. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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