as in hey
how delightful hallelujah, the bank is approving our loan application

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hallelujah

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noun

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Recent Examples of hallelujah
Noun
Said it over and over like a preacher singing hallelujah. Philip Martin, arkansasonline.com, 13 Sep. 2024 For me, especially as an A&R person, that’s hallelujah: Let the creative lead and the rest will follow. Jem Aswad, Variety, 4 Sep. 2024 Get The Recipe 10 of 40 Shout Hallelujah Potato Salad What better time to shout hallelujah than Easter Sunday? Jorie Nicole McDonald, Southern Living, 11 Feb. 2024 There’d be a brief silence, before all the voices flooded in and the whole circle would catch fire like an unending wall of the most resounding hallelujah imaginable. Jack Chang, Sacramento Bee, 25 Jan. 2024 And, as the hoarse hallelujahs from their fans illustrated, the Lakers now have some new magic of their own. Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023 At end times, will there be a chorus of hallelujahs or ... David Harsanyi, National Review, 16 Mar. 2023 This bike even features a fan—hallelujah. Diana Kelly Levey, Health, 20 Feb. 2023 At peak power the cabin is suffused with a sustained, polyphonic power chord, a hallelujah—WHAWWAAHH. Dan Neil, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hallelujah
Interjection
  • And hey, maybe the curse isn’t real and something else is happening here.
    Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 27 Mar. 2025
  • And hey, who doesn’t want to save a few extra dollars for an indulgent post-trip celebration once the hard work is done?
    Tonia Ryan, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • From tomes by landscape designers to paeans to floral fantasias by lifestyle gurus, these book releases will definitely get you in the mood for spring.
    Blue Carreon, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
  • The song is a paean to honesty and virtue in the face of dark and powerful forces.
    Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Returnal Returnal was one of the first exclusives of the PS5 generation; a fabulously grotesque sci-fi horror dirge, and still worth your attention today.
    Luke Winkie, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2025
  • When the relatives begin to arrive, crawling in on their knees, droning a dirge about death, Shula promptly departs for a hotel, pink suitcase in tow.
    Namwali Serpell, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2025
Interjection
  • Su trabajo ha sido reconocido con premios de Florida Society of News Editors y Society for Profesional Journalists.
    Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Pero, ¿y si ha delegado todo lo que ha podido y sigue teniendo demasiado trabajo?
    Frans van Loef, Harvard Business Review, 4 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Whether a requiem is due for rom-coms or not, in the meantime there's at least a conveyor belt of cringe to feast upon.
    Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2025
  • The funeral procession begins with a sorrowful requiem but transitions into a celebration of life — reminding us that life extends beyond death, that grief is not the absence of love but an extension of it.
    Mathew Holloway, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Prominent among these are baseless critiques of the NAEP itself (lauded as the gold standard of achievement measures) and a lament that the science of reading — recently endorsed by more than 40 states — has failed.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 6 Apr. 2025
  • In classical terms, this begins as an Adagio in D minor — a slow lament led by a solo cello, that accelerates into a chaotic swell of strings.
    Kristen S. Hé, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Then, using his talents playing the lyre and singing psalms, David grew to be a supportive comfort to the possibly mad King Saul (Ali Suliman) as well as begin a romance with Saul’s daughter, Michal (Indy Lewis).
    Jim Halterman, Variety, 3 Apr. 2025
  • The Lady Olive certainly sank: All of its crew members escaped in lifeboats, singing psalms to stave off hypothermia, and were saved after 36 hours at sea.
    Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Feb. 2025

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