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
The excitement of a burgeoning relationship is often fueled by a lack of information.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
With excitement seemingly non-negotiable for Ferguson, it is obvious why fans and players of that era resonate with a United that create spectacles.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 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
The fox and the rat looked at each other, excitement building between them.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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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
They’re challenging fare, for the excitements they generate and for the moral doubts they trigger.
From New York Times ● Aug. 12, 2021
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
“It was a quiet little neighborhood that was in walking distance to city excitements like Georgetown and Dupont,” he said.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 21, 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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