excitement
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It has stirred a mix of excitement at the prospect of new jobs and investment, and worry about possible environmental damage.
From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026
Even with all that excitement, Skydance still trades for a large discount to the goodwill alone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
"It's a mix of disappointment and excitement," said Yiting Li, a postdoctoral researcher in the University of Michigan's Department of Astronomy.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
The typically boring healthcare space has delivered a flash of excitement for investors in October, building on its gains from earlier in the year.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026
She was not licking with the excitement that prey blood would cause, but with the gentle licking that she would use when cleaning a pup, a wound lick.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
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
A gray whisper of a man, he eschewed the excitements of travel in favor of a tea-filled life in his house on Utopia Parkway in Queens.
From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2024
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
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
She tried to see him through Aunty Ujus eyes, a man of wonders, a man of worldly excitements, but she could not.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Vocabulary lists containing excitement
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