yay

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I hadn't thought about it till it came out in the press, so yay, yay for me.

From Barron's • Jan. 17, 2026

“The first one she was yay high and then six months later, she grew. We had to readjust all of our dolls.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2025

"I've been watching the trailer and going yay she's here," Cleo told the BBC.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2023

Roy runs into Phoebe’s teacher — yay, Phoebe, genuinely and always — and she says he seemed “stuck” the last time they spoke, which evidently serves to immediately unstick him.

From New York Times • May 17, 2023

Fox Wa goosh Ma kay shish E. yay thay Nag hee dthay.

From Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume II. by M'lean, John