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The former Radio Disney teen heartthrob, raised Mormon and now openly gay, trades the bruised introspection of 2023’s “Calico” for songs that exult in desire on his new album, “Sweet Fortune.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

In his 1908 book, “Orthodoxy,” Chesterton wrote: “Grown-up people aren’t strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025

Frankie and Zeke exult in their profundity, but the real triumph here is Wilson’s.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 15, 2022

They would exult in the stark beauty of the landscape, spend oodles of money in local restaurants, bars and hotels, and then go home again — hopefully without driving up housing prices too much.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2022

I want to enjoy this moment, exult in it, but then there’s Sausun.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali

Unlike Hoover Dam, which exults in exertion, the Gateway Arch seems effortless.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026

“Adventure, risk, transformation,” she exults, forever on the lookout for her next metamorphosis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025

Her low, troubled voice starts to leap upward as she exults, “I want to be alone/I’m happy on my own.”

From New York Times ● Dec. 2, 2022

Sure, she was competing in the event to earn prize money for college, but her enthusiasm is hardly transactional as she exults over the Constitution’s “warm-blooded, steamy” nature.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2022

"What did I say?" exults Hugo, clapping his hands.

From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

She had a difficult time controlling her temper, exulted in being the center of attention, and alienated influential men in Washington by her efforts to insert herself into policymaking.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026

“Another superstar from Japan!” exulted Joe Davis, the voice of the Dodgers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2025

“We did it!” a family member exulted to lead defense attorney Johnnie Cochran Jr.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 11, 2024

Having dreaded the worst, Pakistan exulted with relief and pride over the daring rescue.

From Reuters ● Aug. 23, 2023

He felt a minnow brush his leg and he exulted to be doing so well in the minnow’s own medium.

From "Abel's Island" by William Steig

Mr. Herzog is interested in everything, and makes everything interesting, exulting in all of the world’s settings, the stranger the better.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026

We need to take the next step, which is to say that they are breaking systems and exulting in it.

From Slate ● Feb. 6, 2026

“I betrayed him, I betrayed the family, I betrayed the army!” says Moreno Ocampo, exulting in the anecdote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2023

Painters depicted shells, with names as wonderful as “precious wentletrap” and “speckled episcopal miter,” arrayed on banquet tables or in the hands of exulting deities.

From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2021

All over the countryside in Shropshire and Staffordshire, in London, as well as in Geneva, where Aunt Jessie lived, family and friends were exulting in the news.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman