heady
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It was a heady time for a playwright thrust into the red carpet spotlight.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 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
That’s a heady story to start the week, I know.
From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2026
Despite its heady valuation, SpaceX is the dominant player in both reusable commercial rockets and global satellite internet.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
But somewhere deep down, she loved the sheer heady freedom of it.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
He made those earlier this year to launch the biggest IPO ever in June, a headier period that has now given way to the more down-to-earth reality of executing on the strategy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
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
This is the type of movie that serves as an amuse-bouche to proper, headier dramas for the PG-13 crowd, and its bespoke accessibility is thoroughly appealing.
From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2026
That helped propel him toward Texas Tech, where things got headier.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 5, 2023
It is man's arrogant certainty of his future which makes him impatient of the word "friendship": it cools life to his lips, he so confident that the headier nectar is his due!
From An Englishwoman's Love-Letters by Laurence Housman
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
His passion for theater, from its grubbiest particulars to its headiest heights, is the thread that binds together a slightly miscellaneous collection.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 27, 2021
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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