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Recent Examples of hallelujah
Toni Fitzgerald, Forbes.com, 26 July 2025
Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Apr. 2026
What better time to shout hallelujah than Easter Sunday?
—Jorie Nicole McDonald, Southern Living, 7 Mar. 2026
And a road win without Pat Surtain II would be the surest hallelujah yet.
—Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 1 Nov. 2025
Read: What parents of boys should know Hess does all of this without sharing a drop of advice—hallelujah.
—Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 5 May 2025
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
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
Interjection
Topics include improving meetings (oh hallelujah!), the pitfalls of charisma and how to avoid that trap, navigating bureaucracy, and how to stop chasing perfectionism.
—Toni Fitzgerald, Forbes.com, 26 July 2025
Noun
Cronenworth hit a grounder to the left side in last night’s eighth inning, crossed first base before the throw and raised his hands in a sort of hit hallelujah.
—Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Apr. 2026
What better time to shout hallelujah than Easter Sunday?
—Jorie Nicole McDonald, Southern Living, 7 Mar. 2026
And a road win without Pat Surtain II would be the surest hallelujah yet.
—Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 1 Nov. 2025
Read: What parents of boys should know Hess does all of this without sharing a drop of advice—hallelujah.
—Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 5 May 2025
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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hallelujah
Interjection
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But hey, at least Glory gets to go home.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
7 June 2026
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But hey, there’s stuff that Jose Siri can do that the other Siri can’t.—
Jayson Stark,
New York Times,
5 June 2026
Noun
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Nazi parades set to electronic hype music; paeans to Third Reich governance.—
Antonia Hitchens,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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But that success also led to the sci-fi woodland antics of The Wild Robot; the Oscar-winning, postapocalyptic vision of feline collaboration in Flow; and the paean to basketball teamwork that was this year’s Goat.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
26 Mar. 2026
Interjection
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The Enthoven family refer to themselves as custodians of Spier, an indication of their long-view commitment to their 620-ha parcel of land.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
27 May 2026
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Directed by Kim Min-ha as a standalone sequel to his 2024 feature, the film stars Han Sun-hwa as a passionate student teacher who, along with a high school black magic club, must survive a supernatural, deadly version of a mock exam orchestrated by a 400-year-old samurai ghost.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
18 May 2026
Noun
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This offers respite from the music ever feeling too dirge-like.—
Brendan Hay,
SPIN,
1 May 2026
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The pioneering alt-country band returns with its first album in 30 years—a set of cryptic, languid dirges that feels defiantly out-of-time.—
Zach Schonfeld,
Pitchfork,
17 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The reason for the requiem Pulse was an Orlando gay bar where, on June 12, 2016, gunman Omar Mateen shot and killed 49 people and wounded another 58.—
Rod Stafford Hagwood,
Sun Sentinel,
29 May 2026
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The biggest difference is probably how Laurie plays the final requiem.—
Brent Lang,
Variety,
4 May 2026
Noun
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For example, 53% of respondents say that mess and clutter are always in full sight, and 33% lament that noise travels easily in an open kitchen.—
Terri Williams,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2026
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His suggestion drew scores of hosannahs from followers on X, who shared his lament that the magazine had become too critical of the industry and its leaders.—
Jonathan Weber,
Fortune,
19 May 2026
Noun
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Over the course of Gregory Orr’s long career, his poems have become increasingly incantatory, more and more like chants or psalms, repeating, reformulating, reaching for the edges of the same rich metaphors.—
Craig Morgan Teicher,
Literary Hub,
1 June 2026
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The epitome of that tradition is Choral Evensong, an evening service of hymns, psalms and prayers laid out by Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, the first Protestant archbishop of the Church of England, in 1549.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
5 Apr. 2026
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“Hallelujah.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hallelujah. Accessed 10 Jun. 2026.
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