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McCarthy, Ballard and Connally met in person for the first time at a Sept. 1 hearing and sat together, practically giddy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

He said the series was on a "giddy ascent" ahead of the Emmys.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

So I had all these giddy, kind of rose-tinted romantic notions of what I was doing until I was knee-deep in fiberglass, going, “Why did I think this was a good idea?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

The signs are all around that Wall Street is back in that dangerous atmosphere of giddy euphoria that those with long memories will remember from the infamous dot-com bubble of the late 1990s.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026

The thought made Ivy giddy and queasy at the same time, and she wouldn’t let herself think on it for too long.

From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake

Yet the truth this winter is far giddier, fuller, louder.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2020

And that has to make TV executives and the league’s billionaire owners even giddier than they usually are at this time of year.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 27, 2016

Alas, making fun and profit of the George Lucas saga is a tactic about 30 years behind the curve; Mel Brooks did it, with giddier panache, in the 1987 Spaceballs.

From Time ● Aug. 1, 2014

He’s giddier than an 8-year-old to have a 700-pound soft-serve machine taking up half his pantry at The Hollywood Tavern in Woodinville.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 30, 2014

Mother must have been giddier in her youth than I ever imagined.

From Biltmore Oswald The Diary of a Hapless Recruit by Dick Dorgan

They made the last eight and are three matches from the giddiest glory.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2025

It’s terrific that that she gets both the story’s emotional high point and its purest, giddiest moment of comic anarchy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2020

Buoyant and brazen in her black velour leotard, Flynn stood out as the giddiest of the bunch, often wagging her tongue from the side of her mouth as she pursued exercise stations like a tornado.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 23, 2016

Though these smaller moments can be endearing in an absurdist way, the thrills here remain the well-known circus delights, which climb to the giddiest heights the space allows.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 10, 2011

But no one, not even the giddiest flapper of them all, had said even that!

From The Window-Gazer by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay

And now he remained stock-still, thinking that he had really tired his father out, for they had ridden like mad that morning, intoxicated with the smooth length of the roads, giddied with excessive speed.

From Small Souls by Louis Couperus

Thus, so suddenly that it giddied me, I was translated from failure to success, from poverty to affluence, from the most harassing anxiety to ease and security.

From The Plum Tree by E. M. Ashe

The tone was correctly contrite, but Susan felt underneath the confidence that he would be forgiven—the confidence of the egotist giddied by a triumph.

From Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise by David Graham Phillips

By inverting the perspective, Mr. Daoud shifts the focus from the absurdity of Meursault’s act in the giddying sunlight to the blindness of the colonial mind-set.

From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2022

The property magnate fell for the late de Pompadour as a young man, fascinated by her giddying rise to prominence, according to his lawyer Jack Anderson, the sale handler.

From Reuters ● Nov. 8, 2017

Nobody who saw “Something Wild,” in 1986, can ever forget the giddying swerve of the plot.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 29, 2017

And Seth MacFarlane’s R-rated comedy “A Million Ways to Die in the West” placed No. 5, giddying up to $7.2 million.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2014

Geologists, as McPhee has noted, found themselves in the giddying position that "the whole earth suddenly made sense."

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson