as in spree
a time or instance of carefree fun
in Finland, Midsummer Day ushers in a nationwide revel as the Finns celebrate the endless hours of sunlight with bonfires and parties
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Recent Examples of revel
Ella Feldman, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Sep. 2024
This celebratory defiance of us-and-them mentality revels at the center of Taylor Mac and Matt Ray’s Bark of Millions.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2024
airmail.news, 9 Sep. 2024
But historically Black colleges and universities have reason to revel, as some have seen record increases.
—Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Nov. 2024
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Noun
For instance, Josephus’ account states that around 1,000 revels took their lives toward the siege’s end, but some academics have argued that such an event may never have occurred.
—Ella Feldman, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Sep. 2024
This celebratory defiance of us-and-them mentality revels at the center of Taylor Mac and Matt Ray’s Bark of Millions.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2024
Verb
Be open always to the world around you, and the sighting of a fox, say, or a Mozart sonata overheard on a neighbor’s radio, will be reason enough to revel.
—airmail.news, 9 Sep. 2024
But historically Black colleges and universities have reason to revel, as some have seen record increases.
—Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for revel
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New England Patriots The Patriots continued their free-agent spending spree Tuesday night, adding star wide receiver Stefon Diggs to a receiving group that needed a No. 1.—
Austin Mock,
New York Times,
26 Mar. 2025
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Starting around 2011 Endeavor went on a buying spree acquiring everything from the Professional Bull Riders to the Frieze Art Fair.—
Peter Kiefer,
HollywoodReporter,
26 Mar. 2025
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Its governor, Edward Jackson, was a close friend of the the Indiana Klan leader, D. C. Stephenson, a pudgy man with a reputation for high living, carousing, and trouble with the law.—
Tara McAndrew,
JSTOR Daily,
25 Jan. 2017
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From there, a series of scenes — a late-night house party full of adults drinking and carousing, a cascade of tinsel falling off a Christmas tree, a playground fail — replicate a you-are-there feeling as a preadolescent named Elwood Curtis navigates the agonies and ecstasies of boyhood.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
12 Dec. 2024
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His shakshuka takes the tomato-and-pepper mold and spins it into a gambol through fields of celery and coriander seeds, ground chipotles and sweet paprika.—
Scott Hocker,
theweek,
26 Nov. 2024
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In the winning first moments of the show, Mills gambols on as the Narrator, wielding a paint palette and, instead of a brush, a tuft of rainbow-colored gauze.—
Celia Wren,
Washington Post,
12 Dec. 2023
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Her love of science came from watching PBS shows as a kid with her mom and spending too much time binging Doctor Who. fossils Neanderthals evolution anthropology paleontology 1 free article left Want More?—
Monica Cull,
Discover Magazine,
13 Mar. 2025
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By the time the ten episodes of the show—which, unlike Love Is Blind, were released all at once, so the show could be binged in its entirety—are over, there’s been one threesome, two very messy breakups, and one engagement.—
Lissete Lanuza Sáenz,
StyleCaster,
12 Mar. 2025
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Comments On March 14, Netflix released The Electric State, a new sci-fi romp from Joe and Anthony Russo, the Avengers: Endgame directors who will soon return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe for Avengers: Doomsday.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
14 Mar. 2025
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Sarina Yu had two goals and Lewa White had a goal and three assists in SHP’s 7-0 romp against North Monterey County in the CCS D-V title match.—
Mike Lefkow,
The Mercury News,
2 Mar. 2025
Verb
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For example, the Mayo Clinic still recommends drinking cranberry juice as a way to prevent UTIs, while the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases doesn’t.—
Korin Miller,
SELF,
17 Mar. 2025
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Peterson has almost nothing in common with, say, Dave Portnoy, another mascot of the bro-sphere, who mostly just wants to be left alone to eat pizza and drink beer by the pool.—
Andrew Marantz,
The New Yorker,
17 Mar. 2025
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The team of researchers released video footage capturing almost a decade of the small white creatures’ arctic frolics, providing a rare look at how polar bear cubs behave when emerging from their dens.—
Paul Smaglik,
Discover Magazine,
28 Feb. 2025
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The young lead has a wonderfully magnetic presence, veering between youthful frolic and pensive gloom, even though the film rarely creates circumstances where the latter makes sense.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
18 Feb. 2025
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“Revel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/revel. Accessed 30 Mar. 2025.
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