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exhilaration

[ig-zil-uh-ray-shuhn] / ɪgˌzɪl əˈreɪ ʃən /


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Not everyone shares her exhilaration at spotting a cranberry blue and a northern blue in a Danish wetland.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

"I just wasn't getting that same kind of exhilaration."

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

This exhilaration isn’t far from where it was just before the dot.com bubble popped in 2000.

From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 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 night I took a pair of embroidery scissors and, with great exhilaration and a pounding heart, cut off the first inch.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly


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