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rapture

[rap-cher] / ˈræp tʃər /


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It was a celestial explosion for a tournament, sending the sport into rapture.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026

Let’s replace Broadway with a bunch of rinks—and ask Stanley Cup hockey teams to send us all into the riveted rapture.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2025

His ideas were "received with rapture" by the prime minister's secretary PN Dhar.

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2025

Goggins’ gritty and/or Southern-fried shows are not the kind that inspire Emmy voters’ rapture.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2025

Sometimes they shocked me, sometimes they dosed me with pure rapture, but I never knew which to expect.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

Kupcho repeated her heroics with another monster, winning the match and sending the whole US team into raptures around the green.

From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026

In the 94th minute, Forrest delivered and sent his fans into raptures.

From BBC ● May 17, 2025

Zirkzee's goal sent the vast majority of a capacity crowd into raptures.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2024

For an opera steeped in raptures and reveries, in which fantasies of romantic bliss compete with premonitions of a pessimistic outcome, Sierra and Bernheim were a dream at the revival’s second performance on Sunday.

From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2024

In the midst of Kepler’s mathematical raptures, and despite his sequestered life, the imperfections of the outside world must also have molded his character.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

It was me who managed to spill a glass of water over the notes Mourinho waved to a raptured audience at his unveiling news conference.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2024

When I was 10 I thought I was going to get raptured into heaven.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2021

The future of the web is at stake The end of those cookies is called the Cookiepocalypse, and it’s apocalyptic because nobody really knows what advertisers will do once those tracking methods are raptured.

From The Verge ● Apr. 16, 2021

Yet even CBS’s team carried themselves as if they just found out all of the babies, puppies and kittens in the world suddenly raptured.

From Salon ● Nov. 7, 2018

To judge from the pictures, Pickett didn’t seem to be missing so much as he seemed to have been raptured.

From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green

There also the birds warbled, with various voices, notes ravishing and rapturing the heart by the melodies of their musick.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

Nor ever again did her genius shine out in rapturing periods till she drew inspiration from the grand environment of the old homestead.

From Idle Hour Stories by Eugenia Dunlap Potts


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