as in hey
how delightful hallelujah, the bank is approving our loan application

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hallelujah

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Recent Examples of hallelujah
Noun
Said it over and over like a preacher singing hallelujah. Philip Martin, arkansasonline.com, 13 Sep. 2024 For me, especially as an A&R person, that’s hallelujah: Let the creative lead and the rest will follow. Jem Aswad, Variety, 4 Sep. 2024 Get The Recipe 10 of 40 Shout Hallelujah Potato Salad What better time to shout hallelujah than Easter Sunday? Jorie Nicole McDonald, Southern Living, 11 Feb. 2024 There’d be a brief silence, before all the voices flooded in and the whole circle would catch fire like an unending wall of the most resounding hallelujah imaginable. Jack Chang, Sacramento Bee, 25 Jan. 2024 And, as the hoarse hallelujahs from their fans illustrated, the Lakers now have some new magic of their own. Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023 At end times, will there be a chorus of hallelujahs or ... David Harsanyi, National Review, 16 Mar. 2023 This bike even features a fan—hallelujah. Diana Kelly Levey, Health, 20 Feb. 2023 At peak power the cabin is suffused with a sustained, polyphonic power chord, a hallelujah—WHAWWAAHH. Dan Neil, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hallelujah
Interjection
  • Those characters were mostly Final Fantasy 7's Tifa and Like a Dragon's Kiryu, but hey, Clive is almost like one of those, being from Final Fantasy.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Like, hey, that promising Tinder match did mention a recent breakup.
    Julia Ries, SELF, 12 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Cher: The Memoir is a paean to being in the spotlight, for all its downsides and difficulties.
    Alexander Larman, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 29 Nov. 2024
  • The aftermath of the Madison Square Garden comedy bit has already activated national voices such as Bad Bunny, who decided to republish his paean to Puerto Ricans.
    Rafael Bernal, The Hill, 29 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The hand drums, played here by Keith, make this one spooky dirge.
    Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 19 July 2024
  • Following long minutes of silence, a dirge of bagpipes began streaming from the church, suddenly growing loud as 10 pipers emerged with a corps of drummers behind, playing on as pallbearers rolled the casket out.
    Bill Laytner, Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2024
Interjection
  • Built on the endearingly boyish charm of lead Grant Gustin, the longest-running (ha) of the Arrowverse shows would eventually overstay its welcome after nine seasons, its initial spark sapped by sister series.
    Joshua Rivera, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2024
  • Hamas ha empezado a dar medicamentos a rehenes israelies Maine wants to lead in offshore wind.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • No dolphin will ever perform an autopsy, no dingo will read Heidegger, no macaque will write a requiem for piano and violin.
    Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
  • The Last Showgirl is a requiem for any woman who has ever been underestimated because of her beauty, her choices, or her art (so, essentially, every woman ever to exist).
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • But these laments seemed to reach a crescendo during the Biden administration, which was seen as too focused on the United States’ growing rivalry with Beijing and the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East to devote even minimal bandwidth to its southern neighbors.
    Brian Winter, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Opponents lament diverting taxpayer funding from public schools to private ones and point to examples of misuse of funds, like buying dune buggies.
    Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 2 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Inside the nave, choirs sang psalms, and the cathedral’s mighty organ thundered back to life in a triumphant interplay of melodies.
    Thomas Adamson and John Leicester, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2024
  • The great organ's 8,000 pipes, which were covered in toxic dust after the fire and have been disassembled, cleaned and retuned, will also play a psalm as the doors re-open.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024

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