excitement

"They want to have things that are unforeseeable… unpredictable. The special moment is live. The excitement, the discovery is hearing it in person with others."

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

There was a wave of excitement in the crowd when Michael Shannon picked up a bullhorn, one of Stipe’s favored devices.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

Welcome to Dead Internet Theory, a Y2K-era event that celebrates a time when social media meant AOL Instant Messenger and when tech evoked excitement rather than dread.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

These plans have created great consternation in your family and, to a certain extent, excitement.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

“This was your final exam,” he said, and a jolt of excitement ran through my body.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

In the memoir, Ms. Dunham traces the struggles of her adult life—fame, illness, addiction—with touching emphasis on the early tremulous excitements of becoming well-known: the affirmation, the freebies, the invitations to glittering events.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

They are “something like but unlike critical interest, which has its own excitements but remains too often at the level of knowledge, analysis, conclusions, at worst the total boredom of having opinions.”

From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2023

We texted, sent each other selfies, and went back and forth about the banal particulars and little excitements of our days.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2019

One of the great excitements about any wedding, of course, is the moment you learn who has been invited and who has not.

From New York Times ● May 19, 2018

He sat propped against a tree, watching the red sentries passing to and fro in the firelight, hearing their quiet passwords and thinking about the excitements of the day.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White