joy

"Connection and laughter and joy are bigger than this game - and to meet someone and just play and laugh, it's all us humans need, you know?" she said.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

With great humanity, “Ulysses S. Cat” makes the case for pets, not as toys or diversions, but as companions in joy, sorrow and all the rest.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

The way to look at it is, I was bringing joy to myself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

As a special thank-you to our Pluskateers on the occasion of Slate’s 30th anniversary, we’re sharing a little joy and a lot of characterological analysis: Muppet Theory, the 2026 Edition.

From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026

He’d been overthinking his future at the expense of his joy.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

The characters in her books doggedly seek the joys of love and art while the apocalypse rages in the background.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

Marquez’s personal journal, which documented her inner joys and struggles over the last year, is also open on a table in the exhibition for guests to read through, draw over, or tear.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

In a statement issued through Alfred A Knopf, Gandhi says she wants this memoir "to be a testament of my heart's journey through the tender joys and dark despair that have marked my life".

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

Given the phrase’s innate poeticism, it’s often used by scholars, authors, casanovas and perhaps overly didactic filmmakers to convey the fleeting intensity of life’s most burning joys.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

They loved and sympathised with one another; and their joys, depending on each other, were not interrupted by the casualties that took place around them.

From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley