excitement
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When Netflix announced the first-ever Chef’s Table Food Festival, bringing 70 internationally acclaimed chefs to Park City for four days of dinners, demonstrations and excursions, I felt something between excitement and apprehension.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
SpaceX’s first quarterly earnings reported delivered—on financial metrics and excitement.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
Still, he welcomes the chance to discuss books, his voice swelling with excitement at the mention of Emily St. John Mandel and Ottessa Moshfegh — both personal favorites.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Of course, it doesn’t take long for offseason excitement to translate to in-season pressure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
But not out of nerves – out of excitement.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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
Still, the era’s ecstasies are recaptured here by Janis’s own real-time excitements.
From New York Times ● Nov. 26, 2019
We texted, sent each other selfies, and went back and forth about the banal particulars and little excitements of our days.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2019
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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