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cheerful

[cheer-fuhl] / ˈtʃɪər fəl /


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Embrace the warm weather with cheerful accessories, homewares and baked goods.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

Unknown but cheerful in his obscurity stands a humble wedding singer, Rick Power, warmly played by Paul Rudd with his patented earnest sweetness.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

If the atmosphere of the world could be depicted by an Erewhon beverage, it wouldn’t be a vibrant, cheerful one, like the bright magenta Pitaya Smoothie.

From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2026

Despite cinema’s extensive library of cheerful animal heroes, led by “Babe” and Wilbur of “Charlotte’s Web,” the titular premise of “The Sheep Detectives” apparently strikes many people as bizarre.

From Salon • May 17, 2026

Or perhaps kindness and forgiveness were so much a part of her nature that they kept popping to the surface, like one of those cheerful yellow bath duckies they have nowadays.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood




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