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yay

interjection as in hurrah

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“To be able to be like, yay, things are funny and rolling along and laughing and then all of a sudden it’s like, we’re humans and we lose people and our relationships break, and the beautiful part about life is repair,” says Ellis in a phone call earlier this month.

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It will kind of never end from here in ways, so you know, yay?

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“Oh, yay—it’s you again,” I say.

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"There was no coercion. It was more just me figuring out in that space, do I want to take this? I had every opportunity to say: 'Yay', 'nay', or 'yeah, I'll take it,'" he says.

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“You draft some player in the sixth round and all of a sudden you hear ‘yay!’ way up in the corner.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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