excitement
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For now, this week’s excitement is likely to run into the cold realities of tumors and economics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
As attendees make their way out of the venue, excitement lingers through the air.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
“That experience gave me more excitement to come back here and play with these guys,” Shaffelburg, 26, said after stepping off the training pitch last Tuesday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
By her own record-breaking expectations, Hodgkinson's outdoor season has not lived up to the excellent indoor campaign which fuelled excitement that she could break the sport's longest-standing mark.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Woo jumps up on Autumn’s shoulders and bends his knees in excitement a few times.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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In the memoir, Ms. Dunham traces the struggles of her adult life—fame, illness, addiction—with touching emphasis on the early tremulous excitements of becoming well-known: the affirmation, the freebies, the invitations to glittering events.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
Still, the era’s ecstasies are recaptured here by Janis’s own real-time excitements.
From New York Times ● Nov. 26, 2019
The excitements begin amidst blowing dust in Mexico, where in a remote desert some fighter planes missing since World War II suddenly reappear, engines ready to go at the touch of a switch.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2017
The former experience the excitements of utopianism, the latter settle for prudence’s mild pleasure of avoiding disappointed dreams.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2016
Captain Beatty, keeping his dignity, backed slowly through the front door, his pink face burnt and shiny from a thousand fires and night excitements.
From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
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