exhilarate
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They were very big shoes to fill, but 110 goals and 75 assists for Chelsea had demonstrated Hazard's ability to consistently excite and exhilarate at the highest level.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2023
Oakeshott understood in 1961 that modernity’s emancipation of the individual from the “warmth of communal pressures” did not exhilarate everyone.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 24, 2021
His turn — his chance to exhilarate some much younger actor with tales of Brian Murray and Patti LuPone and David Mamet and Patrick Stewart — will come later.
From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 2010
The fact that he manages to exhilarate and inspire in spite of this is his glory.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 1, 2010
In his secret life, Walter was a fabulously wealthy entrepreneur. exhilarate.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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He added: "Moana 2 exhilarates with its tunefulness, and absolutely romps along from the moment the heroine gets off the island, bound for another adventure on her trusty outrigger canoe."
From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2024
Ever since moving here, I feel like I’ve been searching for that buzz, that indication of what exhilarates the arts patrons in this city.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 22, 2022
And indeed there is about her a health and sense and sanity that exhilarates you like a very spirit of the green earth.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The wit is in the film's dialogue; it exhilarates even as it horrifies.
From Time Magazine Archive
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That blessed breeze, so pure, so crisp, so potently shot through with magic savours of iodine and ozone, exhilarates the spirits until the most staid of men break at times into schoolboy fun.
From A Dream of the North Sea by James Runciman
Canyon coach Nate Harrison was exhausted and exhilarated afterward.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
When he nabbed an undervalued card, he tried to replicate that exhilarated feeling by bidding in more auctions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
"I was exhilarated, knowing that this natural insight had led to a major breakthrough," Zargartalebi said.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 5, 2024
The CGI glamour throughout “Wicked” can be intoxicating, but in this climax it enables Erivo’s Elphaba to soar like a comet and declare her independence with exhilarated determination:
From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2024
We rush down upon her, exhilarated, breathless, laughing, just as she’s picking herself up.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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No wonder the action sequences never seem exhilarating — Latif may be adept at staying alive, but the sanctity of his soul is another matter entirely.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
And zonk it is, indeed; “Date Night” is an exhilarating, high-velocity, uplifting song with a surprisingly singable chorus.
From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026
You can hear the songs germinating from lonely inspiration to group transformation — and the sound is exhilarating.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Finally, in 1855, he moved to Europe and became part of an exhilarating bohemian culture in Paris and vanguard art world in London.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
"It was an exhilarating time," he recalled, "but I knew that we could not go on forever like some German Bonnie and Clyde."
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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