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Recent Examples of jubilant Included in the government’s indictment is an excerpt from a jubilant email Smith sent to his co-conspirators (the ones who sound an awful lot like Mitchell and Bessoff). Kate Knibbs, Wired News, 20 May 2025 In the meantime, the North was jubilant at the news of the arrests of the diplomats. Zaakir Tameez june 11, Literary Hub, 11 June 2025 These kids, though, seem more jubilant than might be expected for a Tuesday morning. Alex Backus, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 May 2025 After the lockdown ended, the country was jubilant. Rachel Morris, New Yorker, 5 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for jubilant
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Adjective
  • On his triumphant 10-day journey on the canal from Buffalo to New York City, when the Seneca Chief reached New York Harbor, Clinton poured a keg of water from Lake Erie into the Atlantic Ocean, symbolizing a union of two major bodies of water.
    David Moin, Footwear News, 28 June 2025
  • Lewis Capaldi has made a triumphant return to music, two years after an emotional moment at Glastonbury led to the singer taking a break from his career.
    Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 27 June 2025
Adjective
  • Sami Gibson, the mother who initiated the change at Curtis Elementary, was ecstatic about the playground during its opening in 2018.
    Samara Gerstle, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 June 2025
  • Most players would be ecstatic with that statline after four quarters.
    Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 14 June 2025
Adjective
  • Our more than 18,000 Bombardier employees are proud to welcome this new, important customer to our family.
    Doug Gollan, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • In 1977, Peter Murray, a lecturer in art history, had the modest idea of putting some sculptures on the grounds of the 18th-century Bretton Hall estate in Wakefield, West Yorkshire—a city that was the proud birthplace of sculptors Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth.
    Kin Woo, Vogue, 30 June 2025
Adjective
  • June 11, 2025 Music 13 of the late Brian Wilson’s finest songs to revisit Wilson leaves a singularly inventive, exultant body of work that scripted California to the world.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2025
  • The exultant right-wing influencers who cheer on MAGA’s sassy clapback anti-diplomacy should remember that insulting another country’s politicians is like insulting someone else’s family.
    Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2025

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