heady
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EA took shape as a decentralized movement during the heady, techno-optimistic days of the late 2000s and early 2010s -- when many believed social media and smartphones would promote empathy and democracy.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
The Jets' draft and John Harbaugh going to the Giants should mean they could rise to the heady heights of being mediocre.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
The film itself is just as slippery and multi-layered, down to Lee’s heady admixture of documentary and dramatic aesthetics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
“In the ’70s, it was heady and exciting,” she said in a 2011 documentary, “Gloria: In Her Own Words.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
And then, being in a heady, sharing sort of mood, I explain the wheelchair, the potting soil, and Rosa, like it’s all perfectly normal.
From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen
Nothing like the durable consolations of late-life romance, but headier, more exciting and, in the worst cases, far more damaging.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
Investors are concentrating capital in the most trusted VC firms rather than taking chances on new managers as they do when the market is headier, Clarkson said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026
Perhaps the film could have leaned more into being headier, more emotional, have more going on.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2023
“I had written a book,” he wrote, “that was compared with Henry James and Marcel Proust and, headier still, was labeled decadent.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 22, 2022
The ale of Ireland is heady, but headier far the ale of the Great Country.
From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Kenneth Morris
Fox Corp. sat out the headiest days of the streaming boom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
“He’s one of the headiest baseball players I’ve ever been around,” said Roberts of Hernández.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2025
The next few weeks could be the headiest in Philadelphia sports since Rocky Balboa went the distance, which, depending whom you ask, either does or does not count as a real moment.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 21, 2022
It was one of the headiest plays of the day in the Kraken’s first scrimmage, one where Donskoi’s White team defeated the Blue team 5-1.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 25, 2021
Finest, coolest, headiest thing I ever seen done with a hoss in a pinch.
From Bull Hunter by Max Brand
Vocabulary lists containing heady
The Great Gatsby
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The Bluest Eye
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