excitement
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However once the plane had taken off and the goodbyes were behind them, the excitement started to kick in.
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
Danny hollered his excitement into the sea breeze.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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
A gray whisper of a man, he eschewed the excitements of travel in favor of a tea-filled life in his house on Utopia Parkway in Queens.
From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2024
The excitements begin amidst blowing dust in Mexico, where in a remote desert some fighter planes missing since World War II suddenly reappear, engines ready to go at the touch of a switch.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2017
The former experience the excitements of utopianism, the latter settle for prudence’s mild pleasure of avoiding disappointed dreams.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2016
She tried to see him through Aunty Ujus eyes, a man of wonders, a man of worldly excitements, but she could not.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Vocabulary lists containing excitement
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