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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And although a move wasn’t made Thursday, Weltman is excited about the next stage of roster construction.—
Jason Beede,
Orlando Sentinel,
7 Feb. 2025
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However, fishermen need not get excited, for these lakes contain very little fish life except carp.—
Kay Johnson,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Look at how the stock price of Robinhood, the signature brokerage platform for today’s at-home and on-the-go traders, and Palantir , the software name with the most avid and aggressive retail fan base.—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
1 Feb. 2025
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That swipe didn’t sit well with some industry supporters, who have been avid donors and supporters of party candidates.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
1 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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