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exult

[ig-zuhlt] / ɪgˈzʌlt /




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The former Radio Disney teen heartthrob, raised Mormon and now openly gay, trades the bruised introspection of 2023’s “Calico” for songs that exult in desire on his new album, “Sweet Fortune.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

In another refrain found in many poems, the women exult: “I have become cool, free.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

They would exult in the stark beauty of the landscape, spend oodles of money in local restaurants, bars and hotels, and then go home again — hopefully without driving up housing prices too much.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2022

Weinreich did not plan to stay awake until dawn to exult in that achievement, to revel in the perpetuation of the sort of uncontested primacy that most fans, in theory, crave.

From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2022

But he had lived with a basketball, had paid his dues, and could now exult in this one small skill of boyhood.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

Unlike Hoover Dam, which exults in exertion, the Gateway Arch seems effortless.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026

“Adventure, risk, transformation,” she exults, forever on the lookout for her next metamorphosis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025

Her low, troubled voice starts to leap upward as she exults, “I want to be alone/I’m happy on my own.”

From New York Times ● Dec. 2, 2022

Sure, she was competing in the event to earn prize money for college, but her enthusiasm is hardly transactional as she exults over the Constitution’s “warm-blooded, steamy” nature.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2022

"What did I say?" exults Hugo, clapping his hands.

From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

“Confirmed, it’s coming home! Lungu to be buried in Zambia,” the city of Chipata exulted on social media.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2025

“We did it!” a family member exulted to lead defense attorney Johnnie Cochran Jr.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 11, 2024

When his team succeeded, when the Trinity gadget exploded, Oppenheimer both exulted and mourned.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2023

Having dreaded the worst, Pakistan exulted with relief and pride over the daring rescue.

From Reuters ● Aug. 23, 2023

Bologna should have exulted Dunbar, because the minutes dawdled and the hours dragged like centuries.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

Mr. Herzog is interested in everything, and makes everything interesting, exulting in all of the world’s settings, the stranger the better.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026

We need to take the next step, which is to say that they are breaking systems and exulting in it.

From Slate ● Feb. 6, 2026

Meanwhile, Californians continue to move in, exulting in the lower cost of living while driving up prices for lifelong residents.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2023

Both times, the 73rd-ranked Fernandez managed to get folks in the seats on her side, exulting with every of her on-the-run, impossible-angle groundstrokes that added up to a 45-28 edge in winners.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 5, 2021

Tom talked incessantly, exulting and laughing, but his voice was as remote from Jordan and me as the foreign clamor on the sidewalk or the tumult of the elevated overhead.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald




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