as in to delight
to feel or express joy or triumph
the winners of the Super Bowl spent the next week exulting in their victory
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Recent Examples of exult
The broken family exults in its own debasement just like the protesters and activist judges who pursue self-annihilation as liberation.
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Armond White, National Review, 19 Mar. 2025
Close chances and corresponding roars continued, the crowd exulting in a moment long overdue.
—Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Mar. 2025
This one, Washington’s fourth this season, left you feeling agita rather than exulted.
—David Aldridge, The Athletic, 16 Dec. 2024
The real problem, though, was that my college years fell in the middle of a triumphalist era, with the Soviet Union smoldering on the ash heap and America exulting in its victory over history.
—Michael Moynihan, airmail.news, 26 Oct. 2024
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Armond White, National Review, 19 Mar. 2025
Close chances and corresponding roars continued, the crowd exulting in a moment long overdue.
—Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Mar. 2025
This one, Washington’s fourth this season, left you feeling agita rather than exulted.
—David Aldridge, The Athletic, 16 Dec. 2024
The real problem, though, was that my college years fell in the middle of a triumphalist era, with the Soviet Union smoldering on the ash heap and America exulting in its victory over history.
—Michael Moynihan, airmail.news, 26 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for exult
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The sequel has plenty of the same horror-comedy elements that delighted audiences a couple years ago, but there’s also a major action upgrade that resembles the paths that Aliens and Terminator 2: Judgment Day took from their predecessors.—
Brian Davids,
HollywoodReporter,
20 June 2025
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The combination of microservices with edge computing CDNs and micro frontends creates a robust application development framework that enables fast, resilient and scalable applications that delight users while driving business expansion.—
Raju Dandigam,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2025
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Messi, at 35, led his country to glory against France, winning soccer’s ultimate prize in a pulsating match that finished 3-3 after extra time and had to be settled by a nerve-wracking penalty shootout.—
Patrick Smith,
NBC News,
19 Dec. 2022
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If Harris can bring together a family with Indian, African, and Jewish heritage, America can glory in its diversity.—
Fintan O’Toole,
The New York Review of Books,
26 Aug. 2020
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Not because Arsenal had stumbled against their weakest opponents, but because the Croatian side had triumphed with a player — Arijan Ademi — who had returned a positive drugs test after playing the full 90 minutes.—
Philip Buckingham,
New York Times,
20 June 2025
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The Oilers won Games 4, 5 and 6 of last year’s final, sending the series to Game 7, where the Panthers ultimately triumphed.—
Cameron Priester,
Sun Sentinel,
16 June 2025
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Those in need of organization will also rejoice, as the bag also comes with a zippered pouch that can keep smaller items like sunglasses, your go-to lipstick, tissues, hand sanitizer, and more neat and tidy.—
Alicia Geigel,
Southern Living,
19 June 2025
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While the official Gulf response was to de-escalate, many people in the region rejoiced given Iran’s role in propping up proxies that killed thousands and destabilized Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen.—
Mohammed Sergie,
semafor.com,
13 June 2025
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