excite

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Seyboth, 45, said when he started his career, the technology industry still offered plenty to excite him.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

When a photon strikes a material, it can excite an electron and move it away from its original position, leaving behind a positively charged hole.

From Science Daily • Mar. 16, 2026

In the popular overture, elicitation of tumult concludes, with startling exhilaration, in the kind of grand Beethovenian triumph that never fails to excite.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026

Kelly: Did the project and the new management at Spurs excite you as well in the summer?

From BBC • Jan. 24, 2026

The secretary of war, Henry Knox, also followed the public feuding, and wrote: “The different opinions of the treatment excite great inquietude—But Rush bears down all before him.”

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy