revel
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Levy added: "Always say yes to any opportunity to revel in the presence of greatness."
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
Yudkowsky’s acolytes grew into the rationalist movement, a group of brainy, often libertarian-leaning outsiders who revel in logical debate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
She is an aesthete, someone who likes to go to the race track just to revel in the colors on display there.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
Once the final track has been played, “F.I.G” beckons us to replay, revel in our emotions and dance once, maybe twice or thrice, more.
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026
I think of the dark shapes of the nixies in the water and the boy at the revel, howling over his torn wing.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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One of my patients revels in being a peacemaker and resolving fights among her three teenage grandchildren, despite her own issues with anxiety and memory lapses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
The album revels in baser instincts too, almost in defiance of the sweetly bashful “Bad Habit.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
But Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!” revels in surprise.
From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026
The self-aware Salah appreciates his superstar status, and revels in what he stands for in both the footballing world and the Arabic world.
From BBC ● May 23, 2026
The master of revels bowed, but Prince Tommen was not so obedient.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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Navarrete reveled with one woman over her husband’s release from a detention facility.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
The orchestra, adroitly conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, reveled in the otherworldly environment of the score.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026
For years, Surf City conservatives like Gates have reveled in playing the burr in the saddle of deep blue California.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026
On movie screens, Peter Sellers reveled in comic inventiveness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
I had once tried to write, had once reveled in feeling, had let my crude imagination roam, but the impulse to dream had been slowly beaten out of me by experience.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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Other publications have revelled in how Sturgeon has given interviews against a backdrop of stolen books in stolen bookcases, or offered cups of coffee to journalists from a coffee machine Murrell bought with stolen money.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Hockney lived in an unheated garden shed, spent every waking hour painting and revelled in his newfound bohemia.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
Was enough thought given to how Wirtz would be utilised as Liverpool revelled in beating Manchester City to his signature?
From BBC ● May 30, 2026
With Jude Bellingham out injured and Mbappe sitting on the bench, Vinicius seemed to have more freedom to roam and revelled in being the key attacking figure.
From Barron's ● Feb. 14, 2026
Now when they had found—and they had the luck to find directly—he revelled in the heavy going of a big ploughed field.
From Second String by Anthony Hope
I should be reveling in the gourmet–soda parade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
But the billionaire Republican is also reveling in the macho side of an event that will see bare-knuckle fighters battle it out in a mesh-framed cage known as the "Octagon."
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
It’s McKellen reveling in a great role: charmingly funny but also bittersweet in the film’s examination of how fading fame can calcify one’s soul.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026
Two years later, the Quigleys are reveling in the Sunshine State’s education freedom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
We sat there awhile, holding hands, reveling in the strange new sensation of actually touching one another.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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Headingley gradually came to life after Tongue removed Imam, and the crowd gave home favourite Root a warm welcome before revelling in his late-evening progress.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Or maybe just revelling in the Canadian capers.
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2026
Italy's cricketers have been revelling in plenty of "pinch me" moments during their debut appearance at the T20 World Cup, and now they want more.
From Barron's ● Feb. 17, 2026
Having won Saturday's sprint to trim Piastri's championship advantage to 55 points, the Dutchman was revelling in his form and the role of hunter as McLaren's supremacy evaporated.
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2025
He felt its power even in his hours of revelling, and although he never met with an upbraiding word or look from her, his conscience had no rest.
From I've Been Thinking; or, the Secret of Success by Azel Stevens Roe
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