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And Arsenal began its championship defense on Friday night with a 3-0 victory over Coventry City, which prompted giddy speculation that Arsenal might actually be fun to watch this season.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

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

Ureña, a 22-year-old right-hander who has emerged as another potential ace, speaks of Soriano with a giddy amusement mixed with a solemn respect for how the starter has survived in the big leagues.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

Last night I went over some scenarios and got almost giddy—a strange sort of giddy that was speckled with big drops of fear.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali

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

I got ever that much giddier about spending two nights exploring the area.

From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2015

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

But it sometimes makes you giddier than galoping.

From The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies by Israel Zangwill

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

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2025

It’s terrific that that she gets both the story’s emotional high point and its purest, giddiest moment of comic anarchy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2020

Based on a 1962 trading card series, Mars Attacks! is Tim Burton at his absolute giddiest.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 8, 2019

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

Meanwhile, was the city really in dire and shameful jeopardy, or was it as safe as the giddiest boasted?

From Kincaid's Battery by Alonzo Kimball

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

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

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

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

She’s great in both, although Carol has the edge for me, in that it contains more depth, more nuance, more giddying extremes of cold and heat.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 7, 2015

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