luxuriate
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There’s no evidence that this generation intends to make pining their only romantic activity; it’s more that they are very content, at the moment, to luxuriate in the many conduits for yearning available to them.
From Salon ● Feb. 21, 2026
Yet Mike and Claire embrace the cheese, luxuriate in it, like toddlers spinning around deliriously in their first snowfall.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025
It’s about creating spaces where LGBTQ+ people can be visible but also feel safe to be in community, a moment to live without fear and luxuriate in collective joy.
From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2025
I’ll also make some hot chocolate and then I’ll put on “The Great British Bake Off” show while I’m cooking, so I can really luxuriate in the Sunday chill vibes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2025
We have entered the safest cocoon our affections can make, and we lie there, and we luxuriate in the wealth of the moment, and gently fall into each other, fall into sleep.
From "Every Day" by David Levithan
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Before Kercher’s murder corkscrews their story, “The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox” luxuriates in the postcard-perfect view from the apartment Amanda shared with Meredith and two Italian women.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2025
And Strong, an enthusiastic cook, luxuriates in the bounty of fruits and vegetables growing around their home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2025
“Pacifiction,” the sixth feature by the Catalan filmmaker Albert Serra, luxuriates in the Polynesian twilight, as if the camera’s lens could absorb humidity and make it visible.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2023
Here, finally, McEwan — who won the Booker Award in 1998 for “Amsterdam” — luxuriates in all the space he needs to record the mysterious interplay of will and chance, time and memory.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 20, 2022
Himself an excellent swordsman, he luxuriates and excels in the description of points and parries, cartes and tierces, and of the vigorous estocades which his heroes administer to each other.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 by Various
He said she was an "emotional parasite" who fed off the couple's despair and "luxuriated" in offering them false hope.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2025
Across from me, George Felix luxuriated in the vibes.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2025
Gustavo Dudamel luxuriated in his own warmly sympathetic recording of it with the Berlin Philharmonic in 2014.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2023
One luxuriated on a fluffy bedspread by a picture window overlooking Manhattan; another perched on a banister newel post, master of his empty household.
From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 2022
For the first few days at Princeton, the boys kicked back and luxuriated in the posh surroundings of the hotel and country club.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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The couple will still be on a high after all the festivities and luxuriating in the afterglow of the love — and cash — bestowed upon them.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 13, 2026
Far from luxuriating in a serene and pristine writing environment, Ms. Lewin reveals, Woolf worked amid “old nibs, bits of string, used matches, rusty paper-clips, crumpled envelopes, broken cigarette-holders, etc.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
Like everyone else at Crooked Con, Piker is luxuriating in what he thinks is a vibe shift.
From Slate ● Nov. 19, 2025
Rather than participants luxuriating in newfound free time, a Stockton, California pilot found that full-time employment actually rose among those receiving guaranteed income, while their financial, physical and emotional health also improved.
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2024
Like most Maya rulers, Chak Tok Ich’aak spent a lot of his time luxuriating in his court while dwarf servants attended to his whims and musicians played conch shells and wooden trumpets in the background.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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