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merriment

[mer-i‐, mer-ee-muhnt] / ˈmɛr ɪ‐, ˈmɛr i mənt /


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In summoning so much mirth for its monument to merriment, “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” cheerfully rages against the dying of the light.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

My self-consciousness about the high number of touring productions persuaded me not to include “Shucked” at the Hollywood Pantages, which lightened the summer with its country bumpkin merriment.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2025

A festival on a sandbar brought 90 minutes of merriment to hundreds of people in the Isles of Scilly.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2025

There shall be no more merriment, and in the words of Nat King Cole, it is time to straighten up and fly right.

From Salon • Jan. 29, 2025

At Kit’s innocent question her two cousins burst into peals of merriment.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare




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