as in breathtaking
causing great emotional or mental stimulation
ranked the U.S. hockey team's victory in 1980 as one of the most electrifying moments in Olympic history
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as in thrilling
to cause a pleasurable stimulation of the feelings
Marian Anderson electrified audiences with her soaring operatic voice
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Recent Examples of electrifying
Rosie Jarman, Vogue, 3 Jan. 2026
Kenney said Xcel has invested in safety, reliability, making the system more resilient, electrifying transportation and buildings, meeting increased demands from growth and taking steps to significantly reduce carbon emissions.
—Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 22 Nov. 2025
Skenes is easily the most electrifying and buzzworthy pitcher in baseball on and off the field.
—Nelson Espinal, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Nov. 2025
For five electrifying days, Red Bull took over Los Angeles for the Red Bull Dance Your Style Finals.
—Okla Jones, Essence, 28 Oct. 2025
Each storm sparked a wave of scientific inquiry, until, in the early twentieth century, scientists finally understood why electrifying societies had grown precariously vulnerable to environmental upheavals on the Sun.
—Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
True leadership is not about flawless words but about conveying electrifying meaning.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2025
Yamal was a crucial part of Hansi Flick’s remarkable transformation at Barca over 2024-2025, taking a team that finished on its haunches under Xavi to a domestic treble in a style that was very often electrifying.
—Laia Cervelló Herrero, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
As the largest city in Brazil, São Paulo has long been an electrifying destination for travelers.
—AFAR Media, 17 Oct. 2025
Claire Hao, Houston Chronicle, 7 Jan. 2026
After an electrifying first half of the season, Celebrini has made the Canadian team’s roster for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milano-Cortina, according to ESPN.
—Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 31 Dec. 2025
Perhaps more unexpected is that RØZ has achieved all of this not by doing typical pop genres — but by creating a new avenue for themselves with electrifying house and EDM sounds.
—Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 30 Dec. 2025
In Marty Supreme’s electrifying opening moments, the audience is introduced to the wiry 20-something (played by Timothée Chalamet) in 1950s New York.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 25 Dec. 2025
Directed by Mona Fastvold and cowritten by Brady Corbet, director of The Brutalist (which the pair also wrote together), the lushly immersive sort of musical stars an electrifying Amanda Seyfried as Ann Lee, founding leader of the burgeoning Shaker religious movement in the mid-18th century.
—Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 25 Dec. 2025
Tellinghuisen disputed that electrifying buildings will drive up costs and threaten the reliability of the electric grid.
—Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 22 Dec. 2025
And his energy is contagious—A’zion and Paltrow tussle with him at the same level of electrifying intensity.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2025
Benson Boone His live show is electrifying and his acrobatics breathtaking (as in, please let this young man land on his feet and not his head).
—Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 7 Nov. 2025
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This season’s most electrifying pop of color is a lime green that takes center stage, spotted everywhere from Prada and Versace to Tibi and Erdem.
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These power lines are primarily to supply huge amounts of electricity to data centers powering artificial intelligence technologies and oil-and-gas companies electrifying their operations.
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Located in northern Spain, along the Bay of Biscay and between the popular cities of Bilbao and San Sebastián, the Urola Coast of Basque Country is a breathtaking stretch of shoreline.—
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In dozens of interviews in villages on Venezuela's breathtaking northeastern coast, from which some of the boats departed, residents and relatives said the dead men had indeed been running drugs but were not narco-terrorists or leaders of a cartel or gang.—
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Based on Agatha Christie’s thrilling mystery, the upcoming Netflix series of the same name is a detective story about a sleuth who investigates a prank gone tragically wrong.—
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The concept of being on a set is as thrilling as being on tour where everyone who’s there is there for a reason.—
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This season already has plenty of exciting acting talents to spot on the red carpets—including frontrunners such as Chase Infiniti, Renate Reinsve, and Rose Byrne.—
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Craft service had Cinnabons — that was exciting.—
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The Cowboys have mastered the art of entertaining and interesting better than any sports franchise in the world, but there is a redundancy that to the person who spends a lot of their money on it is justifiably checked out.—
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Seeing these guys unapologetically portrayed by an actor whose superpower is the audience is always with him was interesting.—
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But a new study has cast doubt on the idea that the intriguing world shrouded in ice could indeed harbor extraterrestrial life deep in its vast ocean of liquid saltwater.—
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The most intriguing combo of late, though, features Robertson, Nicolas Roy and Easton Cowan.—
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Shop our top picks below from $13 with everything from reusable overnight oats jars to portable salad jars for lunch, an electric kettle that boils water in minutes, and a multipurpose air fryer that doubles as a storage solution for leftovers.—
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Refrain from entering water that might carry an electric current and avoid walking through floodwaters.—
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“Electrifying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/electrifying. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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