excitement
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Synonyms
incitation, incitement, instigation, provocation
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On Twitter, the overwhelming response was not hope and excitement over Facebook’s ability to introduce you to your soul mate, but rather dread and skepticism over the social network’s expansion into such an intimate endeavor. — Lisa Bonos, Washington Post, "Facebook’s new dating feature: Your burning questions, answered," 5 Sep. 2019 Almost immediately, our trip went from excitement to disaster. — Ask Amy, oregonlive.com, "Ask Amy: Parents deal with troubling situation admirably in the moment, but now what?," 25 July 2019 Almost immediately, our trip went from excitement to disaster. — Amy Dickinson, The Denver Post, "Ask Amy: Family vacation leads to traumatic incident," 25 July 2019 Almost immediately, our trip went from excitement to disaster. — Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, "Ask Amy: Upsetting contact on family vacation," 24 July 2019 These scenarios, which also affect racing in the mountains, are a real problem for organizers who need to maintain the excitement over a three-week period. — Samuel Petrequin, SFChronicle.com, "Technology beating romanticism at Tour de France," 16 July 2019 Just as bogus stem cell clinics profit off the potential of regenerative medicine research (and blinding people in the process), probiotic makers are exploiting excitement over the microbiome and getting ahead of the data. — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, "New York Times falls for “obesity probiotic” hype," 5 July 2019 Her diary entry indicated losing a few friendships and excitement over Christmas coming. — Karen Pilarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "She wrote about him in her fifth-grade diary. Now she's marrying him — in a $25,000 wedding they won.," 3 July 2019 The drop in wait times was a happy side effect to the overwhelming fan excitement over the opening of the $1 billion Star Wars expansion. — Dallas News, "Why this is the best time in years to visit Disneyland," 25 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'excitement.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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