excitement
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With a flurry of major sporting events unfolding, she predicted that the excitement around this seemingly minor find would ignite a digital storm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
The 2026 tournament has been no different - full of excitement, great stories and, after a slow start for the home nation, some great British success.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Yet the cost of that excitement can upend a well-structured financial plan, Orr says.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
“People expect excitement … What actually shows up is messier.”
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026
That excitement was doused a moment later when I remembered that my future was no longer just mine—it was forever tangled with Regan’s.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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
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
The former experience the excitements of utopianism, the latter settle for prudence’s mild pleasure of avoiding disappointed dreams.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2016
He sat propped against a tree, watching the red sentries passing to and fro in the firelight, hearing their quiet passwords and thinking about the excitements of the day.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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