as in nervous
easily excited by nature
an excitable child who needs a stable home life
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Recent Examples of excitable
Green, an excitable optimist, isn’t particularly concerned about the future.
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Hank Tucker, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
Know your audience, an excitable kind of reader informs the author of a piece that fails to flatter his pretensions or reinforce her most uncharitable assumptions about her political opponents.
—Noah Rothman, National Review, 20 Nov. 2024
Lucy, over-the-top housewife Lucy and Ricky, her excitable husband, were always getting into some sort of entertaining hijinks.
—Michael Gioia, Architectural Digest, 26 Sep. 2024
In the first verse, the drums march stiffly, while the bass is excitable like the cad Khan targets, popping rudely and bounding showily into the chorus.
—Elias Leight, Billboard, 4 Nov. 2024
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Hank Tucker, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
Know your audience, an excitable kind of reader informs the author of a piece that fails to flatter his pretensions or reinforce her most uncharitable assumptions about her political opponents.
—Noah Rothman, National Review, 20 Nov. 2024
Lucy, over-the-top housewife Lucy and Ricky, her excitable husband, were always getting into some sort of entertaining hijinks.
—Michael Gioia, Architectural Digest, 26 Sep. 2024
In the first verse, the drums march stiffly, while the bass is excitable like the cad Khan targets, popping rudely and bounding showily into the chorus.
—Elias Leight, Billboard, 4 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for excitable
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Tyler Hines did such an amazing job of being a mentor this season, and a supporter for all of us nervous guys in the middle of a competition.Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2024
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Read more Auto giants are getting nervous about the prospect of mega fines as EV demand falters ‘Europe’s Detroit’ built a thriving car industry.Sam Meredith, CNBC, 11 Dec. 2024
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Egg prices, which have been volatile for more than two years, in part because of outbreaks of bird flu, soared 8.2% just last month.COMPILED BYDEMOCRAT-GAZETTE STAFFFROM WIRE REPORTS, arkansasonline.com, 12 Dec. 2024
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Still, food price growth is notoriously volatile and many factors that determine costs are often outside the government's control.Rob Wile, NBC News, 12 Dec. 2024
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Farmers are anxious about the loss of farmland, and the Manx National Farmers’ Union has opposed plans elsewhere to convert agricultural land to rainforest.Christine Ro, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
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This promise has left people in the area anxious about the deep impact new workplace raids could have on the community's psyche and the economy.Sergio Martínez-Beltrán, NPR, 9 Dec. 2024
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According to Gregory, fluctuating temperatures in the area has caused all ice surfaces to be unstable.Dawn Sawyer, CNN, 10 Dec. 2024
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Advertisement By any measure, the immediate future of Syria will be an unstable and potentially violent melange of competing groups, intense jockeying for power and settling of scores.Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2024
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Forrest is a squirrel who has a tree nut allergy and can be hyperactive and impulsive.Jaclyn Greenberg, Parents, 5 Dec. 2024
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Children who were hyperactive in school may become restless and easily bored in work meetings as adults.Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 21 Oct. 2024
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“Excitable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/excitable. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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