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Recent Examples of 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
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
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Oh hey coach Andy Reid is in the building pic.twitter.com/gJ4KYXyqIV — TorresOnBYU (@TorresOnBYU) March 13, 2025 Reid wore a blue jacket instead of a red one.—
Blair Kerkhoff,
Kansas City Star,
13 Mar. 2025
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Customers may over-order, but hey: leftovers are a delight.—
Amy Drew Thompson,
Orlando Sentinel,
13 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Eugene Robinson followed, with a subtle column on the new documentary about Katharine Graham; the column made no reference to Bezos, but its paeans to Graham’s courage in the face of Richard Nixon’s threats evoked an implicit comparison with the current owner and his relationship with Trump.—
Ruth Marcus,
The New Yorker,
12 Mar. 2025
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This the same woman whose 1969 Wellesley commencement address was a paean to youthful dissent, searching, and renewal.—
Matthew Continetti,
National Review,
8 Feb. 2025
Noun
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On the final night, one of the regulars hired a Scotsman in a kilt to play a bagpipe dirge.—
Zach Helfand,
The New Yorker,
10 Mar. 2025
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Ethel Cain: Perverts [Daughters of Cain] Ethel Cain found unlikely pop fandom with Preacher’s Daughter, her 2022 debut album, thanks to its emotional dirges and heavy lyrics.—
Nina Corcoran,
Pitchfork,
10 Jan. 2025
Interjection
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Su trabajo ha sido reconocido con premios de Florida Society of News Editors y Society for Profesional Journalists.—
Nora Gámez Torres,
Miami Herald,
6 Mar. 2025
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Maybe bring in a psychologist to analyze the answers ha.—
Max Bultman,
The Athletic,
18 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The funeral procession begins with a sorrowful requiem but transitions into a celebration of life — reminding us that life extends beyond death, that grief is not the absence of love but an extension of it.—
Mathew Holloway,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Feb. 2025
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Column Plug Two Rollie Pemberton A requiem for Trugoy and a rebirth for De La Soul.—
Max Ufberg,
hazlitt.net,
10 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Unwittingly, the whole exchange echoes Mullins’ lament in Lioness about the media telling us what to believe.—
Stephen Rodrick,
Rolling Stone,
9 Mar. 2025
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Because, as one of them laments, who else can a spy really date?—
Stephanie Zacharek,
TIME,
6 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The Lady Olive certainly sank: All of its crew members escaped in lifeboats, singing psalms to stave off hypothermia, and were saved after 36 hours at sea.—
Sean Kingsley,
Smithsonian Magazine,
18 Feb. 2025
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He is known as the patron saint of bookbinders and wrote an illustrative book of psalms while at the monastery of St. Finnian, according to Discovering Ireland.—
Joyce Orlando,
The Tennessean,
15 Mar. 2024
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“Hallelujah.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hallelujah. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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