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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

"I still get giddy thinking about it , especially since I grew up in California next to Modesto where George Lucas was from," the 41-year-old said.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

Still, LA28 sold 4 million tickets across 85 countries, a historic number that had International Olympic Committee officials giddy for the potential of the 2028 Games.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026

Today, the model is nothing short of giddy.

From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026

He turns to his left and his right, finding only giddy patrons streaming past.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

As well-received as Death Cab’s brisk run through “Transatlanticism” was, prompting a standing ovation, the crowd was even giddier for the once-in-a-decade chance to see The Postal Service.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 7, 2023

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

Was there ever a giddier creature?—Yet this is the celebrated, the blazing Clarissa—Clarissa what?

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 by Samuel Richardson

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

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2025

It’s the giddiest, most thrilling, most fabulous show in town.

From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2023

The offseason mood among the players was probably best captured by Upton who, upon the signing of Ohtani, tweeted "So pumped right now" accompanied by a GIF showing the giddiest Mike Tyson ever.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2018

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

Last year at this time it was the height of the giddiest of giddy seasons.

From In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters by L. de (Lillie de) Hegermann-Lindencrone

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

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

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

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 reversal of fortunes for the island nation’s most powerful politician for decades has been giddying.

From Reuters ● May 12, 2022

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