as in excited
showing urgent desire or interest
he was gung ho about his accounting class
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Recent Examples of gung ho
The studio was really gung ho about the film—top movie star, top TV star.
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Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 16 June 2024
Formerly gung ho investment banks, such as Goldman Sachs, are moving into the retail banking sector, becoming ever so slightly more like a utility than a hedge fund.
—Gillian Tett, Foreign Affairs, 11 June 2019
This place has been a coaching graveyard, but Canales is gung ho about his new job anyway.
—Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 2 Feb. 2024
The government has often been gung ho in its health-education efforts: the U.S.D.A.’s nutritional guides and food pyramids, seventies Saturday-morning-cartoon P.S.A.s, Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! campaign.
—Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
Other researchers are less gung ho about such heady prospects.
—Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 10 Aug. 2023
There are merely people who are gung ho about it, and people who would prefer for various reasons to soft-pedal it.
—Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 2 June 2023
Everybody’s just gung ho to do this.
—William E. Ketchum Iii, Rolling Stone, 6 Jan. 2023
Even financial firms, perhaps the most gung ho about return-to-office policies, have mostly caved, resigning themselves to a hybrid future that has, in many cases, stalled out at two-day-a-week callbacks.
—Curbed, 15 June 2022
Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 16 June 2024
Formerly gung ho investment banks, such as Goldman Sachs, are moving into the retail banking sector, becoming ever so slightly more like a utility than a hedge fund.
—Gillian Tett, Foreign Affairs, 11 June 2019
This place has been a coaching graveyard, but Canales is gung ho about his new job anyway.
—Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 2 Feb. 2024
The government has often been gung ho in its health-education efforts: the U.S.D.A.’s nutritional guides and food pyramids, seventies Saturday-morning-cartoon P.S.A.s, Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! campaign.
—Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
Other researchers are less gung ho about such heady prospects.
—Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 10 Aug. 2023
There are merely people who are gung ho about it, and people who would prefer for various reasons to soft-pedal it.
—Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 2 June 2023
Everybody’s just gung ho to do this.
—William E. Ketchum Iii, Rolling Stone, 6 Jan. 2023
Even financial firms, perhaps the most gung ho about return-to-office policies, have mostly caved, resigning themselves to a hybrid future that has, in many cases, stalled out at two-day-a-week callbacks.
—Curbed, 15 June 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gung ho
Adjective
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Ludacris is as excited as Fast & Furious fans are to find out details on the franchise's final film.—
Sydney Bucksbaum,
EW.com,
7 Feb. 2025
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His oldest son, also named Vinnie, who turns 4 Sunday, was so excited Dad was coming home.—
Michael Russo,
The Athletic,
7 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Many times, Eng’s patients were extremely healthy: vegetarians, marathon runners, avid swimmers.—
Jamie Ducharme,
TIME,
13 Feb. 2025
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Scheffler took the next three months off and, as an avid Dallas Cowboys fan, suffered through the NFL season.—
Kurt Badenhausen,
Sportico.com,
13 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Advertisers seemed eager to evoke a smile or recognition, and then get off the stage.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
10 Feb. 2025
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The Chiefs are trying to become the first NFL team ever to win three Super Bowls in a row, and the Eagles are eager to stop them and avenge their 2023 loss.—
NPR Staff,
NPR,
9 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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His message was met with enthusiastic cheers from the crowd that followed him.—
Jennah Pendleton,
Sacramento Bee,
7 Feb. 2025
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Some of the comedian's followers were enthusiastic about his video.—
Kristan Hawkins,
Newsweek,
6 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Related article More kids are anxious but fewer are getting the right help, study shows New fears and anxieties tend to develop and vary as children and adolescents grow and adapt to new environments, Silverman said.—
Julianna Bragg,
CNN,
5 Feb. 2025
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The person in question has legal status and was feeling anxious about the Trump administration's hardline immigration agenda.—
Anders Fogh Rasmussen,
Newsweek,
4 Feb. 2025
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