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Recent Examples of hallelujah
Interjection
Topics include improving meetings (oh hallelujah!), the pitfalls of charisma and how to avoid that trap, navigating bureaucracy, and how to stop chasing perfectionism.—Toni Fitzgerald, Forbes.com, 26 July 2025
Noun
What better time to shout hallelujah than Easter Sunday?—Jorie Nicole McDonald, Southern Living, 7 Mar. 2026 And a road win without Pat Surtain II would be the surest hallelujah yet.—Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 1 Nov. 2025 Read: What parents of boys should know Hess does all of this without sharing a drop of advice—hallelujah.—Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 5 May 2025 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 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
But that success also led to the sci-fi woodland antics of The Wild Robot; the Oscar-winning, postapocalyptic vision of feline collaboration in Flow; and the paean to basketball teamwork that was this year’s Goat.
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David Sims,
The Atlantic,
26 Mar. 2026
There’s Frank Lloyd Wright’s Westcott house, now a museum, its low planes a paean to the Midwestern prairie.
The organ that colored all the earlier tales of youthful exuberance now plays a funeral dirge.
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David Glickman,
Pitchfork,
27 Mar. 2026
Swedish singer-composer Anna von Hausswolff, whose cathedral melodies, intense vocals and doom-laden dirges share much in common with Nordic heavy-metal culture, specializes in mystery and grandiosity.
The legislation behind this flurry of warnings and laments is Assembly Bill 1207, which emerged from backroom negotiations last September.
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Dan Walters,
Mercury News,
18 Mar. 2026
While voters are extremely interested in presidential contests and other high-profile races such as governor, most don’t pay attention to local contests, something both Democrats and Republicans lament.
After all, audiences may be captivated by the psalm singing itself, but then can also find more things that capture their imagination in the observational doc.
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Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Feb. 2026
Gallagher is also excited about Psalms of the People (Salim Nan Daoine), Jack Archer’s Gaelic-language documentary about Scotland’s cultural heritage of traditional Gaelic psalm singing.