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Recent Examples of buoyant When Sir Jim Ratcliffe ventured down to the Manchester United dressing room area after Ruben Amorim’s side had beaten Southampton 3-1 at Old Trafford on Thursday, the mood was buoyant following their late come-from-behind victory. Laurie Whitwell, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025 Despite her numbness, there was something unexpectedly buoyant in her movements. Samanta Schweblin, The New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2025 If not, that buoyant derby feeling would be zapped. Charlotte Harpur, The Athletic, 23 Jan. 2025 The latest menswear shows in Milan for the Fall-Winter 2025 season left their usual buoyant mood at the door. Scarlett Conlon, CNN, 22 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for buoyant 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for buoyant
Adjective
  • Available in both a cheerful yellow daffodil and a muted pastel lavender, this handbag can add a vibrant statement to your outfit or a subtle pop of color.
    Caley Sturgill, Southern Living, 17 Feb. 2025
  • Plant was putting them through a cheerful endurance test, but the filmmakers were used to the hunt.
    Steve Appleford, SPIN, 17 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • BuzzFeed is creating its own social media platform as a joyful alternative to addictive social media feeds, CEO Jonah Peretti tells Axios.
    Sara Fischer, Axios, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Photo by George Barberis; Styling by Jorie Garcia Vivid color, playful patterns, and vintage accents are hallmarks of Casework Interiors’ joyful, modern spaces, which capture the perfect mix of past and present.
    Elizabeth Stamp, Architectural Digest, 10 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Last week, Trump struck an optimistic note about Saudi-Israel normalization, claiming Riyadh wasn’t demanding an independent Palestinian state in return.
    Abbas Al Lawati, CNN, 16 Feb. 2025
  • Despite record-setting fundraising and an optimistic message about efforts to get voters to the polls in 2024, voter turnout in heavily Democratic Mecklenburg once again trailed the rest of North Carolina as Democrats failed to flip the battleground state for presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
    Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Jennifer, when curating her vintage realm, realized that the term has two sides: while some think of exuberant, flamboyant pieces gathered in one disorderly shop, others imagine vintage as high-end, inaccessible to the average customer.
    Grace Butler, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Omar Epps Omar Epps’s exuberant Mars and the centaur Chiron are in Aries.
    Lisa Stardust, People.com, 14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The pressure, the this, the that, bright lights, nothing.
    Eric Nehm, The Athletic, 14 Feb. 2025
  • In this case, bright, sensitive 10-year-old Chuang (Wang Shang) feels unwanted in multiple households.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Radner, who died in 1989, was just naturally effervescent, charming and funny.
    Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2025
  • The aggressively effervescent musical endeavors to wash you away in the blushy delights of pop feminism and hit singles and middle-school-level Shakespeare jokes.
    Vulture Editors, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • If the fashion on the sidelines wasn't enough to hype up attendees, a lively dance performance to kick off the runway show did the trick.
    Anika Reed, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2025
  • That judgment works for me, but of course in their lively custom NR readers should feel free to improve my understanding of the matter in the comments section.
    Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 11 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The difference is subtle, but the fine filter creates milk that's a bit bubblier than the ultrafine filter.
    Jaina Grey, WIRED, 12 Jan. 2025
  • But concerts also start feeling poppier and bubblier in springtime, perhaps in anticipation of the even warmer, wilder and grander music events of festival-frenzied summertime.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 24 Mar. 2024

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“Buoyant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/buoyant. Accessed 25 Feb. 2025.

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