overexuberant

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Recent Examples of overexuberant But in a context mostly stripped of overt story, the movements feel more extreme, and even overexuberant, as if let loose from jail: not just high kicks but kicks so high the shins bang the face. Jesse Green, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2023 Woodward cautions overexuberant members of the NFT community from being too jubilant. Chris Stokel-Walker, Wired, 21 Jan. 2022 By that time scientists were zeroing in on overexuberant inflammation as a key feature of severe COVID. Esther Landhuis, Scientific American, 12 Nov. 2021 Now, as the company pursues a SPAC, the question is, is Ginkgo’s eye-popping valuation emblematic of an overexuberant SPAC market, or the result of a company finding the right tool to communicate and capitalize on a truly transformative business idea? Adam Bluestein, Fortune, 8 July 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overexuberant
Adjective
  • Their 13th album, International, interprets the ritual of early retirement sendoff as a boisterous dance party with plenty of music royalty cameos showing up to pay their respects.
    Ernesto Lechner, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Among the latter, McElwee pays a visit to his longtime friend Charleen Swansea, who stole the show in Sherman’s March with her boisterous real-talk and raunchy humor.
    Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Mea Culpa is Perry at his most knowingly silly, and a throwback to erotic thrillers of decades past.
    Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Sep. 2025
  • For every community of mass-shooter fandoms, there is another that is silly, joyous, productive, or totally harmless.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • In Aurora, some of the attendees became drunk and rowdy.
    Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Flipper’s Boogie Palace at LaCienega and Santa Monica was also the A lister’s night spot of its time, the roller disco home of the trendy (including a young Laura Dern), many in glitter hot pants ready for the rowdy rink.
    Merle Ginsberg, HollywoodReporter, 6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • As Verlander walked off the mound, he was greeted with a raucous standing ovation.
    Justice delos Santos, Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Another is Normal, the raucous action pic written by John Wick and Nobody creator Derek Kolstad and starring Bob Odenkirk.
    Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The two lovebirds were snapped looking giddy and in love if this blast from the past.
    Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Today's talkers Travis Kelce is giddy.
    Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • But the hummingbirds are ecstatic.
    Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Wrestlers and wrestling fans alike are ecstatic that fan-favorite WWE Superstar AJ Lee has made her return to professional wrestling.
    Jeremy Hanna, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Since Bitcoin first emerged in 2009, there have been euphoric upswings and catastrophic declines.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2025
  • However, the outperformance has been fleeting with many down significantly from their euphoric highs.
    Jeff Marks, CNBC, 26 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Visually rapturous and moving even at its corniest moments, the whole thing is spectacular.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The Voice of Hind Rajab, a Gaza drama from filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania, receives a rapturous reception here after its world premiere here at the Venice Film Festival, receiving a 21-minute standing ovation, the longest at the 82nd festival.
    Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2025

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“Overexuberant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overexuberant. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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