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as in ecstatic
experiencing or marked by overwhelming usually pleasurable emotion
a rock band that still attracts rapt crowds of aging baby boomers
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as in immersed
having the mind fixed on something
with a mixture of delight and awe, the rapt children stared at the chick in the incubator breaking out of its shell
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Recent Examples of rapt
Seemingly the entire Spanish tennis community, along with a large international audience, watched the match in Malaga, Spain, utterly rapt, sometimes in tears.
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Corey Seymour, Vogue, 19 Nov. 2024
Ruth, rapt, reads aloud from Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2024
Some 900 attendees stare, rapt, as the daredevils loop and arc on their bikes, the wheels illuminated.
—Gina Ryder, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2024
While inside the shows guests were rapt seeing looks from the likes of Burberry and Simone Rocha, outside, attendees served up their own delectable platter of print and color.
—Christina Holevas, Vogue, 17 Sep. 2024
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Corey Seymour, Vogue, 19 Nov. 2024
Ruth, rapt, reads aloud from Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2024
Some 900 attendees stare, rapt, as the daredevils loop and arc on their bikes, the wheels illuminated.
—Gina Ryder, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2024
While inside the shows guests were rapt seeing looks from the likes of Burberry and Simone Rocha, outside, attendees served up their own delectable platter of print and color.
—Christina Holevas, Vogue, 17 Sep. 2024
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The title track starts off sounding like gamelan music, then turns into a busy-grooved evocation on finding catharsis by going for a swim at a busy beach, creating her own ecstatic iteration of traditional baptismal blues imagery.Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 15 Jan. 2025
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Breakthroughs in reasoning are why many AI experts waxed ecstatic over OpenAI’s release of its o3 and o3 mini models last month.Clint Boulton, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
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Other tribes of music-heads danced through dawn on muddy hillsides, barely sleeping or eating through the driving rain, dazed but giddy to take part in a massive, improbable event.Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2025
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Our mammoth game is the last one, which just has to make the NFL schedule-makers giddy.Chris Branch, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025
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Although the mercury hovered at only 5°, all of us became so absorbed in the rabbit chase that no one noticed numb toes and cold ears.Erwin A. Bauer, Outdoor Life, 25 Dec. 2024
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Because of this, absorbed sunlight isn’t reradiated in every direction equally but in some directions more than others.Phil Plait, Scientific American, 20 Sep. 2024
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The association noted that some members may be interested in the shorter workweek but may be hesitant.Lauren Irwin, The Hill, 16 Jan. 2025
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As of now, the Heat is not interested in having Butler remain away from the team while paying him the remainder of his $48.8 million salary for this season after his suspension is over.Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 16 Jan. 2025
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“Rapt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rapt. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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