gleeful
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A spokesman for Becerra, who led Hilton 58% to 33% in a recent UC Berkeley/Los Angeles Times poll, was gleeful about the rift the ad was creating among Republicans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
As a director, Wilde lands this jump with gleeful ease, making it clear what she meant when she recently described the dreadful reaction to her sophomore film, “Don’t Worry Darling,” as “liberating.”
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
Her voice is gleeful and unapologetic, right from the opening paragraph, written at the height of her notoriety: “I am totally cashing in to capitalize on the moment.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
Haldeman, the premiere of Bernstein’s “Mass” at the new Kennedy Center, and gleeful about the New York Times’s brutal review of the work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
He liked the cadence of the Arabic-inflected voice on Radio Kaduna, but he did not like the gleeful certitude with which it said “Port Harcourt is liberated! Port Harcourt is liberated!”
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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