heady
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EA took shape as a decentralized movement during the heady, techno-optimistic days of the late 2000s and early 2010s -- when many believed social media and smartphones would promote empathy and democracy.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
The Jets' draft and John Harbaugh going to the Giants should mean they could rise to the heady heights of being mediocre.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
That’s a heady story to start the week, I know.
From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2026
Under her pen name, Tribulation Periwinkle, she even wrote a sendup of the heady maunderings in her home town.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
He smelled something sweet, heady, as they walked into a compound, and was sure it came from the white flowers clustered on the bushes at the entrance.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
They might have had headier dinner conversations with their parents than I did.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Nothing like the durable consolations of late-life romance, but headier, more exciting and, in the worst cases, far more damaging.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
This is the type of movie that serves as an amuse-bouche to proper, headier dramas for the PG-13 crowd, and its bespoke accessibility is thoroughly appealing.
From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2026
It’s pressure because you can’t be playing at a higher level with a headier crowd of luminaries around you.
From Seattle Times ● May 21, 2023
His look had come back to her face and dwelt there speaking for him a language headier than that of his tongue.
From Hidden Creek by Katharine Newlin Burt
Fox Corp. sat out the headiest days of the streaming boom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
“He’s one of the headiest baseball players I’ve ever been around,” said Roberts of Hernández.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2025
It was one of the headiest plays of the day in the Kraken’s first scrimmage, one where Donskoi’s White team defeated the Blue team 5-1.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 25, 2021
This week, some were back at home for the first time in months, bored, watching Netflix and sharing photographs on social media from their uprising’s headiest days.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 3, 2020
He was called one of the lightest, but headiest quarterbacks in the East.
From Jane Cable by George Barr McCutcheon
Vocabulary lists containing heady
The Great Gatsby
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The Bluest Eye
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