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giddy

[gid-ee] / ˈgɪd i /


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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

"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

Despite his prestigious position on one of HBO’s top shows, Brivik was giddy for the chance to perform at Largo.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 16, 2026

When everyone is this giddy, the median decline for the S&P 500 over the next 12 months is 13%.

From Barron's Jun. 10, 2026

He gets this giddy look on his face and playfully rolls his eyes.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

As well-received as Death Cab’s brisk run through “Transatlanticism” was, prompting a standing ovation, the crowd was even giddier for the once-in-a-decade chance to see The Postal Service.

From Seattle Times Oct. 7, 2023

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

Nesselrode.—The wheel of Fortune is apt to make men giddier, the higher it rises and the quicklier it turns: sometimes it drops them on a barren rock, and sometimes on a treadmill.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 by Various

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

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 W. Heath (William Heath) Robinson

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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