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as in ecstasies
a state of overwhelming usually pleasurable emotion
her boyfriend's proposal sent her into a joyous swoon
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as in collapses
to lose consciousness
easily swooned at the sight of blood
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Recent Examples of swoons
ABC News,
26 June 2026
Calm and good-natured, the 33-year-old swoons these days over his 8-month-old daughter, trying to stay positive.
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Sam Mednick,
Los Angeles Times,
26 June 2026
England always has flashy players heading into World Cup play, but the results haven't been there, and they've often been sent home in brutal fashion, offering a great parallel to the Mets' clockwork-like midsummer swoons and late-season meltdowns.
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Austin Perry Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
18 June 2026
There’s a segment of the audience that practically swoons when good news befalls some of the cast at the end of the play.
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Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
28 Apr. 2026
Sitting at a baby grand piano, Mars prompted swoons with his delivery of the lyrics, his pure voice holding notes with the same muscularity as early in the show.
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Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
11 Apr. 2026
There have been swoons, yes — stretches where this team has looked its age on the ice.
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Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
4 Mar. 2026
Come for the fangs, stay for the swoons.
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Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
7 Feb. 2026
The only thing that’s preventing him from being as secure at a spot as Wyatt Langford or Corey Seager are his second-half swoons.
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Evan Grant,
Dallas Morning News,
19 Jan. 2026
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
7 June 2026
Pasta lovers, meatball fans and everyone who swoons over pizza knows that the Charlotte area has great Italian restaurants at every turn.
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Heidi Finley,
Charlotte Observer,
1 May 2026
Noun
Calm and good-natured, the 33-year-old swoons these days over his 8-month old daughter, trying to stay positive.
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ABC News,
26 June 2026
Calm and good-natured, the 33-year-old swoons these days over his 8-month-old daughter, trying to stay positive.
—
Sam Mednick,
Los Angeles Times,
26 June 2026
England always has flashy players heading into World Cup play, but the results haven't been there, and they've often been sent home in brutal fashion, offering a great parallel to the Mets' clockwork-like midsummer swoons and late-season meltdowns.
—
Austin Perry Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
18 June 2026
There’s a segment of the audience that practically swoons when good news befalls some of the cast at the end of the play.
—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
28 Apr. 2026
Sitting at a baby grand piano, Mars prompted swoons with his delivery of the lyrics, his pure voice holding notes with the same muscularity as early in the show.
—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
11 Apr. 2026
There have been swoons, yes — stretches where this team has looked its age on the ice.
—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
4 Mar. 2026
Come for the fangs, stay for the swoons.
—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
7 Feb. 2026
The only thing that’s preventing him from being as secure at a spot as Wyatt Langford or Corey Seager are his second-half swoons.
—
Evan Grant,
Dallas Morning News,
19 Jan. 2026
Verb
The governor positively swoons over all these residents.
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Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
7 June 2026
Pasta lovers, meatball fans and everyone who swoons over pizza knows that the Charlotte area has great Italian restaurants at every turn.
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Heidi Finley,
Charlotte Observer,
1 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for swoons
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The latter, of course, gives better info, and the former gives fleeting metaphors and nearly faints from embarrassment.
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The everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, neither faints nor is weary.
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But by the New York Times bestselling author and pop culture essayist’s own admission, no topic has loomed larger or longer in his mind than the ironies, ecstasies and singularity of American football.
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In between languid lake swims and sensual forest escapades, old crushes surface and new anxieties rear their heads in this deft portrait of millennial disenchantment.
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And most importantly, nobody f---ing swims in it!
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Just four minutes later, Baggio doubled the Italians’ lead with a swift half-volley, sending the capacity crowd inside of New Jersey’s Giants Stadium into raptures.
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Recorded on five reel-to-reel decks, the composer’s 1975 piece blends everyday and exotic sounds—human breath, cheeping frogs, bubbling geysers—into a passionate defense of the raptures of listening.
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Political and local opposition has been growing because of fears about blackouts, rising electricity bills and the centers’ voracious water needs.
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Adriana Inthamoussu, born in the 1970s, remembers the blackouts in Uruguay’s past.
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We’re surrounded by sensory delights, and a new book argues that being more attuned to them could be a balm for digital exhaustion.
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The psychologists, economists, and happiness advocates have saddled the rest of us with an impoverished and incomplete picture of gratification and its distinctive delights.
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One of the few joys of social media is watching someone experience something that brings them pure joy for the first time.
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Watching a great lineage build is one of the sport’s great joys — one that is deeply, and vicariously, appreciated inside the world of horse racing.
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The rhapsodies about Willow, paired with the silence surrounding the difficult dogs, contribute to a sense of make-believe and avoidance that pervade Biden’s memoir.
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“Swoons.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swoons. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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