as in joyful
joyously unrestrained
exuberant crowds rushed to greet the returning national champions in collegiate basketball
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Recent Examples of exuberant
That recklessly exuberant 2019 drama, which Safdie co-directed with his brother, Benny, stars Adam Sandler as a jewelry dealer in Manhattan and a compulsive gambler who takes thrilling risks to pay off his creditors and learns that the house always wins.
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Richard Brody, New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2025
The logic is that investors can be irrationally exuberant or irrationally pessimistic.
—Michael Khouw, CNBC, 18 Dec. 2025
The design duo, which has a reputation for working with exuberant hues, could tell that the husband, wife, and their three children would be game for some splashy choices.
—Leonora Epstein, Architectural Digest, 16 Dec. 2025
The centralized power of Italy’s postwar government (and its financial backing from the United States), the exuberant egalitarianism of 1960s London, the government’s outsize role in Vienna’s housing market, the forgiving weather of León — each of these affects both policy and product.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 16 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for exuberant
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For the young cubs, the experience marks a joyful milestone just months after their birth.—
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But the process of baking brought her back to something joyful.—
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And in a display of his effervescent showmanship, Malinin just might pull out a backflip.—
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Biologica’s effervescent sachet delivers everything a woman needs (vitamins, minerals, botanicals, probiotics, and electrolytes) for any stage in her life, from perimenopause to postmenopause.—
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Chabada For a livelier scene, head to the main drag along Platja de l’Arenal to find Chabada.—
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The style throughout, irrespective of category, is lively without being hectic, a pleasing postmodern blend of contemporary, midcentury, and roughly Victorian elements.—
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When ranking Providence as the 10th most underrated food city in America, Chowhound named the raw bar and restaurant Gift Horse as proof of the city's substantial, vivacious, and critically acclaimed food scene.—
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The Moon is stepping into your vivacious sign, inviting you to lead with warmth by adjusting your approach as necessary and showing your heart without overexplaining.—
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The buoyant track sees Robyn rapping about having one-night stands while 10 weeks pregnant via IVF.—
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That said, today’s not the best start for the overall buoyant year of 2026.—
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Kim was the breakout star of the 2018 Olympics, a bubbly teenager taking gold in her parents’ home country of South Korea.—
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The result is a cheesy, bubbly casserole that will feed a crowd.—
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The team security guard who ran down the back hallway, ecstatic.—
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Two and three months ago, Wall Street was captivated by another stellar earnings season, a Federal Reserve resuming rate cuts into a steady economy and constant ecstatic new projections for AI spending.—
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“Exuberant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exuberant. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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