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The signs are all around that Wall Street is back in that dangerous atmosphere of giddy euphoria that those with long memories will remember from the infamous dot-com bubble of the late 1990s.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026

Deep breaths of cool marine air kept that giddy feeling going.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

"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

“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

I feel giddy looking up at Jay's cage, swaying above my head.

From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman

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

Diane Paulus’s dynamic, high-flying revival of “Pippin” has become a warmer, giddier show in its 16 months at the Music Box Theater, and that’s really not a bad thing at all.

From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2014

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

Was there ever a giddier creature?—Yet this is the celebrated, the blazing Clarissa—Clarissa what?

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 by Samuel Richardson

They made the last eight and are three matches from the giddiest glory.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2025

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

Buoyant and brazen in her black velour leotard, Flynn stood out as the giddiest of the bunch, often wagging her tongue from the side of her mouth as she pursued exercise stations like a tornado.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 23, 2016

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 Reuben Gold Thwaites

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 Louis Couperus

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 E. M. Ashe

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 David Graham Phillips

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 reversal of fortunes for the island nation’s most powerful politician for decades has been giddying.

From Reuters ● May 12, 2022

Nobody who saw “Something Wild,” in 1986, can ever forget the giddying swerve of the plot.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 29, 2017

But within them lies the revolution’s threat, and its living, giddying possibilities.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 16, 2016

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