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giddy

[gid-ee] / ˈgɪd i /


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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

Still, LA28 sold 4 million tickets across 85 countries, a historic number that had International Olympic Committee officials giddy for the potential of the 2028 Games.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 10, 2026

Today, the model is nothing short of giddy.

From Barron's Jun. 10, 2026

The old man noticed what Jack had seen, and he leapt into the air, almost giddy with excitement.

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley

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

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

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

With the liveliest satisfaction expressed all over his mobile features, he pirouetted round the room with the greatest animation, and daringly accomplished the giddiest somersaults that were ever turned.

From Bill the Minder by Robinson, W. Heath (William Heath)

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

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

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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