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 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 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overexuberant
Adjective
  • The bar queues remain orderly, the chat is boisterous, but body odour is now rife.
    Tim Spiers, New York Times, 11 July 2025
  • At a boisterous court hearing Monday, America’s largest for-profit prison company asked a Kansas judge to reconsider whether it should be allowed to reopen its shuttered Leavenworth prison as an immigrant detention center.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 8 July 2025
Adjective
  • This perky, self-aware, sarcastic and downright silly show caters to both the more traditional Goodspeed audiences.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 14 July 2025
  • Green Lantern is earnest and bright and, yeah, incredibly silly and a little embarrassing.
    Tim Grierson, Vulture, 11 July 2025
Adjective
  • The law exists to protect documents from fire, theft and rowdy behavior.
    Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant, 19 July 2025
  • That frothy film and its title song, which rose to No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in early 1961, put Fort Lauderdale on the spring break map — a rowdy reputation the city has distanced itself from for decades.
    Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 17 July 2025
Adjective
  • Colbert also announced the cancellation to his own audience on Thursday's episode of The Late Show, which was greeted with a raucous round of booing.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 18 July 2025
  • The course last hosted The Open in 2019, when Shane Lowry triumphed in front of a raucous home crowd.
    Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 July 2025
Adjective
  • The game was a lot like that scene, a giddy kaleidoscope of touchdowns and fun.
    Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 16 July 2025
  • The broad market rode a giddy melt-up in mega-cap tech right into the second week of July 2024 before at first a radical internal rotation and then a broader pullback generated the only serious setback of that year.
    Michael Santoli, CNBC, 12 July 2025
Adjective
  • Here's our review, including review and reactions from others who were equally as ecstatic about the Snack Wrap's return.
    Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 11 July 2025
  • Both are also Black art forms that require incredible discipline and a lifetime of study but which, when performed at their highest levels, encourage a freedom of expression that can take the audience into an ecstatic state.
    Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
Adjective
  • The series invites fans on a metaphysical road trip through the West Coast sunset with a euphoric lineup designed to illuminate audiences and create space for community, connection and spiritual transformation.
    Caroline Tell, Forbes.com, 16 July 2025
  • Princess of Power offers playful, euphoric pop tinged with deeper introspection about growing older.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 3 June 2025
Adjective
  • Here are our picks for the most joyful surprises and most egregious snubs.
    EW.com, EW.com, 15 July 2025
  • This book captures her vibrant, joyful voice in conversation with Toshio Meronek.
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 15 July 2025

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“Overexuberant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overexuberant. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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