giddy
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"I still get giddy thinking about it , especially since I grew up in California next to Modesto where George Lucas was from," the 41-year-old said.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
Arthur’s season-ending announcement that the months they’ve spent together only mark the start of his project might make you a little giddy to see how far and high this partnership will soar.
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026
Today, the model is nothing short of giddy.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
“It’s looking good, it’s looking good,” a giddy Timothée Chalamet told The Wall Street Journal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
Her feet crunched the rocks, and she felt almost giddy because her feet had crunched the rocks of this driveway so many times before.
From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake
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Yet the truth this winter is far giddier, fuller, louder.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2020
And that has to make TV executives and the league’s billionaire owners even giddier than they usually are at this time of year.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 27, 2016
I got ever that much giddier about spending two nights exploring the area.
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2015
Alas, making fun and profit of the George Lucas saga is a tactic about 30 years behind the curve; Mel Brooks did it, with giddier panache, in the 1987 Spaceballs.
From Time ● Aug. 1, 2014
For a few brief moments he was not only the leader of the greatest State in the world; he was raised to far giddier heights and became the center of the world's hopes.
From Woodrow Wilson's Administration and Achievements by Lord, Frank B.
They made the last eight and are three matches from the giddiest glory.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2025
It’s the giddiest, most thrilling, most fabulous show in town.
From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2023
It’s terrific that that she gets both the story’s emotional high point and its purest, giddiest moment of comic anarchy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2020
Based on a 1962 trading card series, Mars Attacks! is Tim Burton at his absolute giddiest.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 8, 2019
Her judgment was that in her giddiest days as an oarswoman, she would certainly never have dared to set foot in such a shell.
From Historic Waterways?Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers by Thwaites, Reuben Gold
The tone was correctly contrite, but Susan felt underneath the confidence that he would be forgiven—the confidence of the egotist giddied by a triumph.
From Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise by Phillips, David Graham
Thus, so suddenly that it giddied me, I was translated from failure to success, from poverty to affluence, from the most harassing anxiety to ease and security.
From The Plum Tree by Ashe, E. M.
And now he remained stock-still, thinking that he had really tired his father out, for they had ridden like mad that morning, intoxicated with the smooth length of the roads, giddied with excessive speed.
From Small Souls by Couperus, Louis
By inverting the perspective, Mr. Daoud shifts the focus from the absurdity of Meursault’s act in the giddying sunlight to the blindness of the colonial mind-set.
From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2022
The property magnate fell for the late de Pompadour as a young man, fascinated by her giddying rise to prominence, according to his lawyer Jack Anderson, the sale handler.
From Reuters ● Nov. 8, 2017
Nobody who saw “Something Wild,” in 1986, can ever forget the giddying swerve of the plot.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 29, 2017
And Seth MacFarlane’s R-rated comedy “A Million Ways to Die in the West” placed No. 5, giddying up to $7.2 million.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2014
Geologists, as McPhee has noted, found themselves in the giddying position that "the whole earth suddenly made sense."
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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