as in thrilled
to cause a pleasurable stimulation of the feelings
tabloids titillate their readers with racy details about the private lives of media-created celebrities
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Recent Examples of titillated
The video hit the culture like a neutron bomb and titillated everyone.
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Touré, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025
Touré, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for titillated
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Seriously, just thrilled about it—all of us!—
Eddie Small,
New Yorker,
6 Jan. 2026
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If people are thrilled about it, that's news, too.—
Bill Goodykoontz,
AZCentral.com,
6 Jan. 2026
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For several years, beer geeks got excited for beers like 3 Floyds’ Dark Lord Imperial Stout, the former Portsmouth Brewery’s Kate the Great, The Bruery’s Black Tuesday and Goose Island’s Bourbon County Brand Original Stout.—
Jay R. Brooks,
Mercury News,
9 Jan. 2026
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One thing that particularly excited him was turning back the clock for exteriors on New York’s Lower East Side, where the tight shooting schedule often required the art department to transform locations as quickly as possible.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
6 Jan. 2026
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The prevailing theory at least, is that dormant electrical lines that stretch up and over Eaton Canyon … were electrified in the windstorm ahead of the fire breaking out in Altadena.—
Tonya Mosley,
NPR,
5 Jan. 2026
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One day, sitting in the front row, watching his father preach on the road, a young Judah felt a jolt in his body, as if electrified.—
Sam Kestenbaum,
Vulture,
2 Jan. 2026
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“Titillated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/titillated. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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