swooning

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His earliest musical influences were the swooning Motown singers of the ‘50s and ‘60s, including Otis Redding, Sam Cooke and Marvin Gaye.

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2026

Were this another sport—football, basketball, baseball—they’d be swooning over Alcaraz as an all timer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 2, 2026

When Bowie briefly takes Connelly’s hand for the briefest one-two-three, one-two-three, imagining millions of hearts swooning in concert isn’t hard to do.

From Salon • Jan. 24, 2026

Listen to Blade Bird: The album's swooning climax, based on a Basque poem about the tension between love and possession.

From BBC • Dec. 20, 2025

You know how people are always swooning over that kiss in the movie The Notebook, the one in the rain?

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon