excitement
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Mike’s good at kind of finding that balance of excitement and traditionalism.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
Should I spend the money and PTO to feel like I’m keeping this relationship afloat, or does it create a false sense of excitement?
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
Golding added: "I think we bring a new spin and a new sort of excitement to Thomas, and we're kind of bringing it back up to date, which is the exciting part."
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Conductor Corrado Rovaris tended to push the tempi, however, which heightened the excitement but left little space for expressivity and nuance in the rage arias and other moments of high drama.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Woo jumps up on Autumn’s shoulders and bends his knees in excitement a few times.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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In the memoir, Ms. Dunham traces the struggles of her adult life—fame, illness, addiction—with touching emphasis on the early tremulous excitements of becoming well-known: the affirmation, the freebies, the invitations to glittering events.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
A gray whisper of a man, he eschewed the excitements of travel in favor of a tea-filled life in his house on Utopia Parkway in Queens.
From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2024
They are “something like but unlike critical interest, which has its own excitements but remains too often at the level of knowledge, analysis, conclusions, at worst the total boredom of having opinions.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2023
The excitements begin amidst blowing dust in Mexico, where in a remote desert some fighter planes missing since World War II suddenly reappear, engines ready to go at the touch of a switch.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2017
Captain Beatty, keeping his dignity, backed slowly through the front door, his pink face burnt and shiny from a thousand fires and night excitements.
From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
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