heady
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Big picture: The economy entered the fourth quarter with a heady dose of momentum.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026
Event founder Vanessa Fullerton-Batten said she wanted to let people enjoy "music that transports you back to those heady days of the '90s club dancefloors - but in the morning".
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
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 film itself is just as slippery and multi-layered, down to Lee’s heady admixture of documentary and dramatic aesthetics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
And then, being in a heady, sharing sort of mood, I explain the wheelchair, the potting soil, and Rosa, like it’s all perfectly normal.
From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen
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
Perhaps the film could have leaned more into being headier, more emotional, have more going on.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2023
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
It is man's arrogant certainty of his future which makes him impatient of the word "friendship": it cools life to his lips, he so confident that the headier nectar is his due!
From An Englishwoman's Love-Letters by Laurence Housman
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
You’ll want to make space for substance at what has become the headiest of Washington steakhouses.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 7, 2016
Finest, coolest, headiest thing I ever seen done with a hoss in a pinch.
From Bull Hunter by Max Brand
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The Great Gatsby
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