be overjoyed

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Liverpool's supporters will be overjoyed at agreement being reached, having made their feelings clear when Salah used rare public utterances to bring an impasse over his contract into the public domain.

From BBC • Apr. 11, 2025

Stafford is no doubt all for an escalating quarterback market but can’t be overjoyed when comparing his contract to Detroit’s Jared Goff and Jacksonville’s Trevor Lawrence, the latest to break the bank.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2024

"So, I'm not so sure we can be overjoyed."

From Reuters • Oct. 10, 2022

Full disclosure: If I could avoid 100 percent of the awkward-but-necessary conversations the average lifetime serves up, I'd be overjoyed.

From Washington Post • Feb. 27, 2022

Now she assumed that her own daughter would be overjoyed to do something she herself had never been permitted to do.

From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord