as in joy
a state of overwhelming usually pleasurable emotion
actors are typically in ecstasy upon winning an Oscar
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Recent Examples of ecstasy
The final whistle brought ecstasy.
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Matt Woosnam,
New York Times,
28 May 2026
Her husband, Souksavath Noi Keomisy, pleaded guilty in 2009 to felony federal charges of conspiracy to possess the drug ecstasy with the intent to distribute.
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Matthew Adams,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
18 May 2026
His ecstasy is beautifully represented through the magic of the animation.
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Marya E. Gates,
IndieWire,
13 May 2026
The crowd ranges, Daisy says, from people around her age and younger up through to veterans of the great ecstasy age of yore.
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Matt Thompson,
SPIN,
12 May 2026
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Matt Woosnam,
New York Times,
28 May 2026
Her husband, Souksavath Noi Keomisy, pleaded guilty in 2009 to felony federal charges of conspiracy to possess the drug ecstasy with the intent to distribute.
—
Matthew Adams,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
18 May 2026
His ecstasy is beautifully represented through the magic of the animation.
—
Marya E. Gates,
IndieWire,
13 May 2026
The crowd ranges, Daisy says, from people around her age and younger up through to veterans of the great ecstasy age of yore.
—
Matt Thompson,
SPIN,
12 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ecstasy
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Gathering in the heart of the Golden Triangle turns Juneteenth into both a public history lesson and a street‑level celebration of Black joy.
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Foreigners are visiting the United States, having fun, finding joy in the ridiculousness of American abundance and telling the internet about it.
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The queen of pop swapped her Confessions II-era shiny golden doll-like curls for a high-to-the-heavens mullet.
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Oh, heavens to Betsy, not the chest hair!
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But more than ever before, Nouel said, women are shirking the expectations of previous generations and considering all of their options to happiness, instead of staying in relationships that don't serve them.
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Everyone is over the moon with the experience, especially Aesha, who can barely contain her happiness; the night set the bar very high for the rest of the season.
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It’s been one of the world’s brightest stars thanks to euphoria around SK Hynix and other AI stocks, and the index is still up 97% for the year so far.
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The drugs seem more like a trip into the abyss instead of a gateway to euphoria.
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One of the artists Olivier interviewed, Xang, rapped at blistering decibels to the delight and confusion of a couple hundred stylish black and brown kids.
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By the time Soto picked the ball up and looked toward the infield, Springer was already around third base to score his Little League home run to the delight of the Rogers Centre crowd.
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But elsewhere, there was elation.
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There are four basic types of the disorder, which are characterized by periods of elation and hyperactivity known as manic episodes, which are then followed by depressive stages where the patient experiences feelings of sadness and depression.
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Compared with the fro-yo at Culture and Go Greek, the yogurt at Birdie’s, a cute little spot in the West Village, is so un-yogurtlike that there’s hardly any pleasure in the plain.
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But Van Sant’s imaginative and deeply poignant retelling of Shakespeare’s Henry IV is a pleasure in its own right, its sweetness and gentle touches of surrealism coming together to form a heartbreaking ode to young love.
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His cause of death was preliminarily determined to be severe blood loss from a wound to his left upper arm, worsened by heart disease and alcohol intoxication.
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Absolute contraindications include pregnancy, especially the first trimester, unstable cardiovascular disease, recent stroke, active fever or infection and alcohol intoxication.
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“Ecstasy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ecstasy. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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