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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

As I listened to the details of what else she was doing to prepare for the rapture, I noticed that she was sporting a shirt with Charlie Kirk’s name on it.

From Salon Dec. 21, 2025

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

Meg had a quiet rapture, and then brooded over the letter, while Jo set the sickroom in order, and Hannah “knocked up a couple of pies in case of company unexpected”.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

In keeping with a career full of memorable moments, Stokes took a wicket with the first he bowled after the announcement, sending Trent Bridge into raptures.

From BBC Jun. 28, 2026

Warriors re-emerged like a team possessed and stunned Toulouse with tries from Josh McKay, Gregor Brown, Sione Tuipulotu and Gregor Hiddleston to send Scotstoun into raptures.

From BBC Dec. 13, 2025

Little moments had the home fans in raptures.

From BBC Dec. 12, 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

She flipped the lid up and went into raptures about the fried chicken and potato salad.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

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

Once, when I raptured in a violet glow given off by the Queen of the World, my father asked me why, and I thought he was crazy not to see.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

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

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




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