as in to delight
to feel or express joy or triumph a medical researcher too committed to his work to pause and jubilate even upon hearing that he had won the Nobel Prize

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Recent Examples of jubilate For some, that may be something to jubilate about while others may grieve the ability to have more kids. Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 26 Oct. 2023
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  • But other than catalogs of music that continue to delight and resonate, something else unites the musicians noted above — none of them launched their careers this century.
    David Browne, Rolling Stone, 10 Jan. 2025
  • The video has delighted internet users, going viral with over 255,500 views and more than 46,200 likes on TikTok in a matter of days.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
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  • Make networking, socializing and participating in activities that bring you joy your priorities.
    Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 29 June 2024
  • Acevedo’s treatment of magic as an everyday possibility is compelling, but there is also magic in the wonder, surprise, frustrations, and joys the characters experience in their relationships with one another.
    Nicole Chung, Time, 25 July 2023
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  • Cassel, 44, a lawyer, triumphed in a tough Democratic primary race in 2022 and was reelected in 2024 without opposition.
    Steve Bousquet, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2025
  • The anti-fish brigade ultimately triumphed in 1979, however, by adding a rider that exempted the Tellico Dam from the Endangered Species Act to a spending bill.
    Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2025
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  • Messi, at 35, led his country to glory against France, winning soccer’s ultimate prize in a pulsating match that finished 3-3 after extra time and had to be settled by a nerve-wracking penalty shootout.
    Patrick Smith, NBC News, 19 Dec. 2022
  • If Harris can bring together a family with Indian, African, and Jewish heritage, America can glory in its diversity.
    Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 26 Aug. 2020
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  • The real problem, though, was that my college years fell in the middle of a triumphalist era, with the Soviet Union smoldering on the ash heap and America exulting in its victory over history.
    Michael Moynihan, airmail.news, 26 Oct. 2024
  • Now, however, the shoe is on the other foot, as elements of the Left’s hard core constituencies exult in their law-breaking, vandalize and destroy property and bully those who disagree with them.
    Jeff Robbins, Boston Herald, 10 June 2024

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“Jubilate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jubilate. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.

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