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joy

[joi] / dʒɔɪ /


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“When you add Alice’s resistance to their joy into it, it’s a good recipe for comedy.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

“It’s a very fun, unique way of deciding a name and adding a bit of joy to it.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

“It showed more than anything that being able to go to the beach is such a unifying shared joy in California.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 11, 2026

Zhang Xue wept with joy and furiously waved a Chinese flag as he watched his company's superbike scream across the finish line four seconds ahead of competitors in only its third world championship race.

From Barron's Aug. 9, 2026

I step forward onto the dirt, feel the soft grains against my paw pads, and joy spreads through me.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

She spent the last three years chronicling her daily life as a young person going through chemotherapy and living with cancer, with all its hopes, joys and struggles.

From BBC Aug. 6, 2026

The grandmother in the spotlight, a dyed-in-the-wool New Yorker named Renee, exposes Joshua to the joys of the Big City when he visits from the suburbs.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2026

"Human consent is not an impediment to progress. Human consent does not diminish the struggles and the joys of technological innovation or inhuman creativity," Blanchett said at the event in the parliament's library.

From Barron's Jun. 23, 2026

He stops shaving, bathing or wearing shoes and begins preaching the joys of simplicity.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

Afterward she threw her paints and brushes into the trash and sat down to contemplate her drawings, which is to say, the history of her joys and sorrows.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende




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