as in nervous
easily excited by nature
an excitable child who needs a stable home life
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Recent Examples of excitable
Thank you for being the most generous, excitable, magical crowds, and for breaking the all time attendance record for the stadium all 3 nights.
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Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
There’s naïve Jill (Nicola Turner and then, in adulthood, Helena Wilson), excitable Ruby (Sophia Ally and Ophelia Lovibond), and fretful Gloria (Nancy Allsop and Leanne Best); and then—played by Lara McDonnell as a teen and by Donnelly in a pointed piece of double-casting as an adult—there’s Joan.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2024
Recently, a new development team won the job of carrying out a $300 million salvage plan, though its future remains shrouded in excitable real-estate doublespeak.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 26 Sep. 2024
Mercury locks into an excitable square with boundless Jupiter at 2:12 am EDT, making just about anything seem like a good idea — whether that’s actually true or not.
—Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 21 Sep. 2024
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Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
There’s naïve Jill (Nicola Turner and then, in adulthood, Helena Wilson), excitable Ruby (Sophia Ally and Ophelia Lovibond), and fretful Gloria (Nancy Allsop and Leanne Best); and then—played by Lara McDonnell as a teen and by Donnelly in a pointed piece of double-casting as an adult—there’s Joan.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2024
Recently, a new development team won the job of carrying out a $300 million salvage plan, though its future remains shrouded in excitable real-estate doublespeak.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 26 Sep. 2024
Mercury locks into an excitable square with boundless Jupiter at 2:12 am EDT, making just about anything seem like a good idea — whether that’s actually true or not.
—Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 21 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for excitable
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But that didn’t stop Greenbaum from being a little nervous about screening the film for Harper and Will.Matthew Carey, Deadline, 12 Jan. 2025
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Though landing a recurring character is usually a good thing for an actor, Hilton was nervous about fans’ reception.Alexandra Schonfeld, People.com, 10 Jan. 2025
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Other volatile organic compounds are also known to contaminate tap water after fires.Pien Huang, NPR, 11 Jan. 2025
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Despite his volatile nature, Sanders has been linked to NFL teams after beginning his coaching career with Jackson State back in 2020.Vincent Frank, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
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Beyond those under mandatory evacuation, many more, including many families and anxious pet owners, have left because of poor air quality or general wariness of the county’s precarious state.Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
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Interview Crush on the Cross: An Interview with Anthony Oliveira Jason Kirk The author of Dayspring discusses queerness, Christianity, and the anxious sense that history is over.Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 10 Jan. 2025
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To address such an unstable yet technical landscape, businesses ‘curate’ teams of experts and ask them to work together.London Business School, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
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An underground glow In fungi, the key step towards bioluminescence occurs when the enzyme luciferase converts light-emitting compound called luciferin into an unstable product.Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 9 Jan. 2025
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The exposure made generations of Americans more depressed, anxious, inattentive or hyperactive, the study says.Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News, 4 Dec. 2024
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Certain moments of unabashed emotion where the music swells feel attuned to the vivid realism of cinematographer Santiago Gonzalez’s hyperactive camera.Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 20 Dec. 2024
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