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Noun
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The social media response ranged from panic to hilarity.—
Daniel Cassady,
ARTnews.com,
31 Jan. 2025 -
Rae, who produced the screenplay, ensures that each twist and turn not only adds to the hilarity but also deepens our understanding of Dreux and Alyssa’s friendship.—
Shelby Stewart,
Essence,
21 Jan. 2025
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When the vehicle stopped to turn onto the main road, her mirth vanished.—
Nnedi Okorafor,
WIRED,
14 Jan. 2025
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Aunt Harry dug her hard brown fingers into Mrs. Klein’s chubby pink wrists and shook her face with a strange mirth, as though the Holy Ghost had touched her.—
Henry Van Dyke,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Jan. 2024
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But in a crowded marketplace with fewer revenue streams, enough artists enrolled that, according to Pelly’s reporting, Spotify’s internal Slack channels were lit up with glee.—
Brad Shoup,
The Atlantic,
11 Feb. 2025
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Which is why, for me, the hardest part of the story were finding testimonials, Andre 3000 was the only one with glee that expressed and saw what this was.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
23 Jan. 2025
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Cutting off booze is especially popular in January as people look to wind down from the drinking, eating and merriment of the holidays.—
Erica Pandey,
Axios,
8 Jan. 2025
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The epic weeklong celebration of golf and merriment was derailed in 2024 by rain, frost, mud and congestion.—
Candace Oehler,
Forbes,
27 Dec. 2024
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“Goofiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/goofiness. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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