exult
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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 another refrain found in many poems, the women exult: “I have become cool, free.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
It’s a thumping, reverberating, woofer-rattling, arena-scale sensation, something to exult in even when it doesn’t always go right.
From New York Times ● May 3, 2024
Then as daddy Tee Morant was celebrating, the usher was dancing and the Grizzlies were wrapping up their franchise-best 10th win in a row, we could exult, too.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 2022
Most of the time, though, I exult, and think I have had a narrow escape.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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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
In a song titled “Fungal City,” amid tendrils of clarinet countermelodies and pizzicato strings, Björk exults in a new romance, singing, “His vibrant optimism happens to be my faith too.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 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
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Mr. Duvall knew it, felt it, exulted in it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026
“We did it!” a family member exulted to lead defense attorney Johnnie Cochran Jr.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 11, 2024
Karol G became the first woman to win a Latin Grammy for música urbana album; “How cool is it for a woman to win this?” she exulted.
From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2023
When his team succeeded, when the Trinity gadget exploded, Oppenheimer both exulted and mourned.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2023
Pizarro exulted less in victory than one might imagine.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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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
As the players raced to one another, exulting in yet another heart-stopping, nerve-shredding win, staff members sprinted onto the field after them, ensuring each star was correctly attired.
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2024
Meanwhile, Californians continue to move in, exulting in the lower cost of living while driving up prices for lifelong residents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2023
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
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