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

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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
  • But hey, will Kick of Destiny FOMO get the best of Gronkowski and convince him to suit back up?
    Skyler Caruso, People.com, 6 Feb. 2025
  • But hey, the man clearly loves love and clinks his champagne glass until the happy couple performs another painful-looking kiss.
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 4 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • This the same woman whose 1969 Wellesley commencement address was a paean to youthful dissent, searching, and renewal.
    Matthew Continetti, National Review, 8 Feb. 2025
  • Many interpretations were offered: the images were about the threat of mass extinction; a comment on gentrification; a paean to the plight of the Palestinians.
    The Week UK, theweek, 29 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Ethel Cain: Perverts [Daughters of Cain] Ethel Cain found unlikely pop fandom with Preacher’s Daughter, her 2022 debut album, thanks to its emotional dirges and heavy lyrics.
    Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 10 Jan. 2025
  • The hand drums, played here by Keith, make this one spooky dirge.
    Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 19 July 2024
Interjection
  • Su trabajo ha sido reconocido con premios de Florida Society of News Editors y Society for Profesional Journalists.
    Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Photo : Marcelo Lagos for Sotheby’s International Realty The primary suite ha a fireplace and private balcony.
    Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 22 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Column Plug Two Rollie Pemberton A requiem for Trugoy and a rebirth for De La Soul.
    Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 10 Jan. 2025
  • No dolphin will ever perform an autopsy, no dingo will read Heidegger, no macaque will write a requiem for piano and violin.
    Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • For example, many in the MAHA movement lament how the United States permits scores of pesticides and consumer product additives that are banned in Europe.
    Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Strickland’s lament racked up 159,000 likes and 13.2 million views.
    Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 20 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • He is known as the patron saint of bookbinders and wrote an illustrative book of psalms while at the monastery of St. Finnian, according to Discovering Ireland.
    Joyce Orlando, The Tennessean, 15 Mar. 2024

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