overexuberant

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Recent Examples of overexuberant But in a context mostly stripped of overt story, the movements feel more extreme, and even overexuberant, as if let loose from jail: not just high kicks but kicks so high the shins bang the face. Jesse Green, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2023 Now, as the company pursues a SPAC, the question is, is Ginkgo’s eye-popping valuation emblematic of an overexuberant SPAC market, or the result of a company finding the right tool to communicate and capitalize on a truly transformative business idea? Adam Bluestein, Fortune, 8 July 2021 Woodward cautions overexuberant members of the NFT community from being too jubilant. Chris Stokel-Walker, Wired, 21 Jan. 2022 By that time scientists were zeroing in on overexuberant inflammation as a key feature of severe COVID. Esther Landhuis, Scientific American, 12 Nov. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overexuberant
Adjective
  • While the personalities of Marchand and Tarasenko are different — Marchand more boisterous, Tarasenko more stoic — the impact each provides is similar.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2025
  • In some cases, locations are banning unaccompanied minors and large groups of teen boys in an attempt to curb any boisterous stunts.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • This strategy worked for him for about 10 years—and then began to bore him silly.
    Art Spiegelman, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Props to the people who green-lit Angry Birds to give kids a silly movie about infanticide.
    Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Two of Basem’s teenage students — the older, rowdy Yacoub (Mahmoud Bakri) and the younger, booksmart Adam (Muhammad Abed El Rahman) — share his class despite their age difference, owing to Yacoub’s stint in Israeli detention.
    Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 11 Apr. 2025
  • While that's good for theaters, it's proven to be, well, less good for their employees, who've been forced to contend with crowds of rowdy, popcorn-chucking teens.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The beginnings of the dissolution of dialogue Until 1990, American politics and government was always a raucous and contentious how-do-you-do, but ultimately a cooperative venture to one degree or another.
    Eli Amdur, Forbes.com, 13 Apr. 2025
  • What compelled you to pivot to horror in 1930s Mississippi, infused with the segregation of the time, and a raucous celebration of the blues?
    Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 8 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The Front Range faithful who two summers ago lined the streets of downtown Denver, giddy to the last.
    Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 12 Apr. 2025
  • By turns giddy, anxious, and despairing, these poems have endeared him to generations of ordinary readers who find in the tempestuous and ultimately brokenhearted poet a strikingly modern and profoundly accessible figure.
    Daniel Mendelsohn, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Fans were ecstatic to find out Elliot’s middle name ties to his grandpa, along with his initials being EMM.
    Michael Saponara, Billboard, 7 Apr. 2025
  • The Love Island season 6 winner, 25, was ecstatic to hear Ellen Pompeo is a big fan of her relationship with Kordell Beckham.
    Rachel Raposas, People.com, 1 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • But this news didn’t spoil the euphoric and glamorous atmosphere of Vinitaly.
    Elisabetta Tosi, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Expat Syrians Mohamed Abdul Wahab, his brother Omar, and a friend are euphoric to be back in Damascus, having arrived the night before from their current home in Istanbul.
    Taylor Luck, Christian Science Monitor, 10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • But his joyful, freewheeling creativity is thwarted by the head Piglin, Malgosha (voiced by Rachel House), who seeks the two objects in order to control the Overworld; to protect it, Steve enlists Dennis, a wolf he’s encountered and tamed, to carry them back home and hide them under his bed.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 9 Apr. 2025
  • The key is turning function into emotion, crafting joyful products and blending technology, creativity and insights to create standout first impressions and unique product experiences that stick.
    Nicki Sprinz, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025

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“Overexuberant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overexuberant. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.

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