excite
Example Sentences
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"We live in a world of technology. We need scientists, engineers and mathematicians - and space has a brilliant ability to excite people about those subjects," says Libby Jackson.
From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026
In the popular overture, elicitation of tumult concludes, with startling exhilaration, in the kind of grand Beethovenian triumph that never fails to excite.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026
That quote indicates that there are many modes in which we can write, and some of them are perfectly fine, but they don’t excite anybody.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 26, 2026
Barron’s: Mario, which stocks excite you most this year?
From Barron's • Jan. 23, 2026
They have, for the first stages, two men to ride and lead their spare horses—four in all, so as not to excite curiosity.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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