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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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2
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
Here are 10 of the songs that held us rapt throughout the year.
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Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2024
Not long into the Canadian screening, they were held rapt by film but quickly realized their contemporaries in the room didn’t feel the same way.
—Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 7 Oct. 2024
Seemingly the entire Spanish tennis community, along with a large international audience, watched the match in Malaga, Spain, utterly rapt, sometimes in tears.
—Corey Seymour, Vogue, 19 Nov. 2024
Ruth, rapt, reads aloud from Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2024
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Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2024
Not long into the Canadian screening, they were held rapt by film but quickly realized their contemporaries in the room didn’t feel the same way.
—Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 7 Oct. 2024
Seemingly the entire Spanish tennis community, along with a large international audience, watched the match in Malaga, Spain, utterly rapt, sometimes in tears.
—Corey Seymour, Vogue, 19 Nov. 2024
Ruth, rapt, reads aloud from Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rapt
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That much was clear when the 2023 Grammys turned into a Bey pseudo-meet-and-greet, and the room’s ecstatic reaction to her victory last night was another reminder.—
Kyle Denis,
Billboard,
3 Feb. 2025
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McFadden, a physician specializing in brain injury, will also have an executive producer credit — and couldn't be more ecstatic to see her best-selling book on the big screen.—
Emily Blackwood,
People.com,
29 Jan. 2025
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The crowd got loose and giddy as Dončić was introduced last, conspicuously after LeBron James.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
The Athletic,
12 Feb. 2025
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The movie concludes with a twenty-two-minute take that’s too giddy a jolt to spoil.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
5 Feb. 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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Russia is also interested in Ukraine's natural resources, and one major lithium reserve is within 10 miles of the front line in the Donetsk region.—
Isabelle Khurshudyan and Ellen Francis The Washington Post,
arkansasonline.com,
9 Feb. 2025
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Tyreek Hill appears to be interested in sticking with the Miami Dolphins for the foreseeable future.—
Chantz Martin,
Fox News,
9 Feb. 2025
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“Rapt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rapt. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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