giddy
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"He was giddy, wasn't he? He's just laughing at what's happening. Fantastic," she said.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
And Arsenal began its championship defense on Friday night with a 3-0 victory over Coventry City, which prompted giddy speculation that Arsenal might actually be fun to watch this season.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
So I had all these giddy, kind of rose-tinted romantic notions of what I was doing until I was knee-deep in fiberglass, going, “Why did I think this was a good idea?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
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
I have a giddy flashback to the very first paper-chaining day in the art room.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
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
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
He’s giddier than an 8-year-old to have a 700-pound soft-serve machine taking up half his pantry at The Hollywood Tavern in Woodinville.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 30, 2014
The maiden was made happy with the amusement, and became giddier than ever, so that Pani Makovetski had to restrain her.
From Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
They made the last eight and are three matches from the giddiest glory.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2025
Based on a 1962 trading card series, Mars Attacks! is Tim Burton at his absolute giddiest.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 8, 2019
The offseason mood among the players was probably best captured by Upton who, upon the signing of Ohtani, tweeted "So pumped right now" accompanied by a GIF showing the giddiest Mike Tyson ever.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2018
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
Also he’d invested part of it in some of the giddiest raiment them theatrical clothing houses can supply.
From Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe by Sewell Ford
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 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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