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excitement

[ik-sahyt-muhnt] / ɪkˈsaɪt mənt /


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The game had drama and excitement but what really stayed in my memory was quarterback Josh Rosen jumping into the stands and getting his photo taken with St. John Bosco fans and students.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 23, 2026

Marvel recently stoked excitement for the “Black Panther” franchise at San Diego Comic-Con with the announcement that David Jonsson has been cast as T’Challa’s son and the new King of Wakanda.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2026

Local excitement was limited to “the activity of the insect tribes and the occasional fall of a coconut,” one early visitor wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

By her own record-breaking expectations, Hodgkinson's outdoor season has not lived up to the excellent indoor campaign which fuelled excitement that she could break the sport's longest-standing mark.

From BBC Aug. 15, 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

Still, the era’s ecstasies are recaptured here by Janis’s own real-time excitements.

From New York Times Nov. 26, 2019

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

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




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