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joyful

[joi-fuhl] / ˈdʒɔɪ fəl /


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Joyful chaos reigned when AFP met them in their small apartment at the end of September.

From Barron's • Oct. 21, 2025

"The musicians who get my stuff, who are excited to hold a Wicked Joyful in their hands, they know it's my artwork, they know it's mine," he said.

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2025

The Emmy Award-winning actor, who for years had supported survivors of sexual assault through her nonprofit Joyful Heart Foundation, testified with Worthy before Congress in 2017 on national rape kit reform.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 16, 2024

But Kartes is familiar closer to home for the “Rustic Joyful Food” site that the local resident has run for years, since closing her Tacoma restaurant, Minoela, after a difficult pregnancy.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 5, 2023

Her apartment was a flight up from a bodega with a dingy yellow awning: the Joyful Food Mart.

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart




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