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Noun
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So think about joy as the experience and happiness as the idea.—
Jess Cording,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2025 -
One unexpected joy of League Pass life is the arena feed, which shows us what’s on the jumbotron during timeouts (mascot skits, archival content, dance promotions and many other frivolities).—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
16 May 2025
Noun
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The perfect smile can be the key to self-esteem, to happiness, to personal connection.—
Dave Schilling,
Los Angeles Times,
12 May 2025
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In the third installment of the Skyland series, the best-selling author writes a love story of female friendship, sacrifice, and finding true happiness.—
Monique Wilson,
Glamour,
11 May 2025
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The future will be controlled by inflicting pleasure, not pain.—
Jason Snyder,
Forbes.com,
14 May 2025
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Hell, by way of pleasure and ambition, this slight-but-winsome dramedy offers a step-up from recent vintages; by way of international resonance, however, this latest opener seems unlikely for a world tour.—
Ben Croll,
IndieWire,
13 May 2025
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The second book takes kids on a global culinary adventure, from slurping noodles in Japan to savoring tagines in Morocco and discovering the delight of gelato in Italy.—
Jon Stojan,
USA Today,
10 May 2025
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The dog's noisy breakthrough has become an unexpected source of joy not just for his family but also for tens of thousands of viewers, many of whom took to the comments to share their delight and humor.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 May 2025
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Yet the collective spirit of the event — an exaltation of the feminine in its many expressions — felt authentic to Uchis’ work as an artist.—
Suzy Exposito,
Los Angeles Times,
14 May 2025
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The ambiguity, the exaltation and sarcastic self-parody, the gloom alternating with a yearning for simplicity and even for redemption—all of that reflected the split consciousness of Jews who could never belong and turned revenge upon themselves.—
David Denby,
The Atlantic,
1 Apr. 2025
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Outside of Madison Square Garden was chaotic bliss.—
James L. Edwards III,
New York Times,
17 May 2025
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But the bliss ended mere minutes later when, in a shocking moment of irony (reminiscent to when Serena became a handmaid herself in season five), a handmaid was waiting for the Whartons in their parlor.—
Jackie Strause,
HollywoodReporter,
16 May 2025
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So: Is any of this so very different from the absurd, grab-bag felicity of director King's Paddington 2, where we were enchanted watching a teddy bear sing and dance in prison?—
Tom Gliatto,
Peoplemag,
15 Dec. 2023
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However, Juneteenth maintains a resolve to protect Black family, freedom, and felicity.—
Danielle Broadway,
Parents,
18 Nov. 2023
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Alyssa Wentzel, an undergraduate at the University of Delaware who joined Dr. Wozniak aboard Alvin, described the enchantment of sinking into the darkness of the ocean depths on the 70-minute journey to the seafloor.—
Maya Wei-Haas,
New York Times,
2 May 2025
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But any semblance of real whimsy and enchantment (let alone profits) went down the rabbit hole with Tim Burton, who stepped down from director to producer for this diminished sequel.—
Staff Author,
EW.com,
22 Mar. 2025
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“Joyousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/joyousness. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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