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Recent Examples of joyfully
The photographs joyfully corroborate the text’s account of a life that cannot be the case.
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Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
The result is bright, exotic, and joyfully subversive, proving that even the darkest wood can burn so bright.
—Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2025
After weeks of searching with the help of cameras, drones, and animal shelters, Francine was finally found and joyfully reunited with store workers.
—Real-Time News Team, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2025
Rather than mourning, the holiday is about honoring, remembering and joyfully welcoming back the dead with offerings of their favorite foods, drinks, music and personal mementos.
—Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 6 Oct. 2025
Growing up, one woman watched her family's dog race joyfully down the hill toward their farmhouse.
—Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025
An emotional Instagram reel posted by her daughter, LaTinique, 22, shows her mother, Crystal, 44, playing joyfully with her young grandson, Aziel Chace, who is 18 months old.
—Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
In the joyfully chaotic Vanek household, Michelle made the trains run on time, orchestrating the weekly routine, which revolved around schoolwork, athletics, family time and church.
—Ted Katauskas, Outside, 23 Sep. 2025
Charlie Kirk traveled the nation, joyfully engaging with everyone interested in good-faith debate.
—Chad De Guzman, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
The result is bright, exotic, and joyfully subversive, proving that even the darkest wood can burn so bright.
—Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2025
After weeks of searching with the help of cameras, drones, and animal shelters, Francine was finally found and joyfully reunited with store workers.
—Real-Time News Team, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2025
Rather than mourning, the holiday is about honoring, remembering and joyfully welcoming back the dead with offerings of their favorite foods, drinks, music and personal mementos.
—Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 6 Oct. 2025
Growing up, one woman watched her family's dog race joyfully down the hill toward their farmhouse.
—Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025
An emotional Instagram reel posted by her daughter, LaTinique, 22, shows her mother, Crystal, 44, playing joyfully with her young grandson, Aziel Chace, who is 18 months old.
—Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
In the joyfully chaotic Vanek household, Michelle made the trains run on time, orchestrating the weekly routine, which revolved around schoolwork, athletics, family time and church.
—Ted Katauskas, Outside, 23 Sep. 2025
Charlie Kirk traveled the nation, joyfully engaging with everyone interested in good-faith debate.
—Chad De Guzman, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for joyfully
Adverb
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Lorde and Charli ended the duet together, joyously dancing and swinging their admittedly very similar long, dark curls in a moment of intense catharsis for both the artists and their raucous fans.—
Rachel Scharf,
Billboard,
19 Oct. 2025
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Last year at Raymond James Stadium, the 49ers were the last team standing – or joyously sprinting off the field, having won on a walk-off field goal by Jake Moody.—
Cam Inman,
Mercury News,
11 Oct. 2025
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When large and small crowds in large and small towns gather respectfully, even exuberantly, to register their response to the country’s direction, measuring newsworthiness by body count or damage tallies misses the critical story.—
Nancy Gibbs,
Time,
17 Oct. 2025
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Large and cuddly, charismatic and exuberantly Afro’d, Quest is a real-life version of South Park‘s Chef.—
Touré,
Rolling Stone,
14 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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The hostess seemed to accept this quite cheerfully and, in fact, expect the mess.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Oct. 2025
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No Mob boss, cheerfully decreeing that an inconvenient witness be rubbed out, could be more resolute.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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That, in turn, jars an earlier memory of happier days in the same car, giddily documenting on camcorder their initial move to New Orleans.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Sep. 2025
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The kiss became a key piece of a prosecutorial propaganda campaign, giddily inflamed by the tabloid media, that framed Knox as a perverse, cold-blooded killer.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
20 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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The combination of flavors in this pie is blissful, the sweetness of the apples merrily dancing with the tart edge of the cranberries.—
Cathy Thomas,
Oc Register,
13 Oct. 2025
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Daniels after both of his TDs sought out the TV cameras just outside the end zone and merrily mocked FSU’s famous war chant, an echo of the swagger of Canes teams past.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
5 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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The combo is a winning recipe that has kept this neighborhood favorite happily busy since 1993.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
17 Oct. 2025
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Barrymore happily sniffed both Anderson and Mathews’ feet — which were both deemed to be scentless, thank you very much — during a discussion about their now-viral foot footage on Friday’s episode of The Drew Barrymore Show.—
Emlyn Travis,
Entertainment Weekly,
17 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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But a reporter working on a story like mine would never request or permit an escort—after all, how can someone talk freely about a subject while being observed, however cheerily, by the government?—
Mark Ellwood,
Robb Report,
10 Aug. 2025
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Wesley would rack up accomplishments with a sparkling air of perfection, then march cheerily forward.—
Michael Schulman,
New Yorker,
6 Aug. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Joyfully.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/joyfully. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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