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Recent Examples of sparkly
Watts wore a navy blue sparkly dress paired with black mules and a slicked back hairstyle.
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Kayla Grant, People.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Dust off your fake cobwebs and sparkly garlands, but don’t forget to level up your Halloween Squishmallows collection, too.
—Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 5 Sep. 2025
As La’an calls for the Enterprise to beam them up, time freezes, and the strange sparkly thing takes humanoid form.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025
That’s exactly what the company has done with the sparkly new Guerrilla 450.
—New Atlas, 27 Aug. 2025
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Kayla Grant, People.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Dust off your fake cobwebs and sparkly garlands, but don’t forget to level up your Halloween Squishmallows collection, too.
—Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 5 Sep. 2025
As La’an calls for the Enterprise to beam them up, time freezes, and the strange sparkly thing takes humanoid form.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025
That’s exactly what the company has done with the sparkly new Guerrilla 450.
—New Atlas, 27 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sparkly
Adjective
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The YouTuber greets everyone — fan on the street, friend, foe, sitting Congressmen, and unsuspecting Rolling Stone staffer — the same, with a cheerful smile and an already rolling camera crew.—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
5 Sep. 2025
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The pet supplement space is crowded with options, many of which have cheerful packaging and confident claims, yet little transparency about efficacy.—
Lyssanoel Frater,
USA Today,
3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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What to See The journey begins in the northeastern city of Reims, the unofficial capital of Champagne, where Gothic grandeur and effervescent indulgence coexist.—
Jennifer Schwartz,
Travel + Leisure,
31 Aug. 2025
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Fresh, effervescent and lively with flavor.—
Rachel Bernhard,
jsonline.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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Hers had a chirpy, glassy tone that conformed well to the generic, Kidz Bop-style sound that was favored at the time by Disney.—
Rachel Syme,
New Yorker,
5 June 2025
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For a sizable, open economy taking big hits from Donald Trump’s trade war, South Korea sure seems chirpy about the near-term outlook.—
William Pesek,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2025
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And what's not to love about the buoyant DiCaprio, who walked the red carpet solo (Italian supermodel girlfriend Vittoria Ceretti made a subtle separate entrance).—
Bryan Alexander,
USA Today,
9 Sep. 2025
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My spirit is always pretty buoyant, so at the end of the day, that's all that matters.—
Julia Moore,
PEOPLE,
9 Sep. 2025
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For the several months prior to the upbeat anthem’s arrival, all the members of the group had delivered solo projects, and some of them made history on the Billboard charts with multiple successful singles and high-rising full-length efforts.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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But Match Group shares popped in early August on the news that the company had issued an upbeat guidance between $910 million and $920 million in the current quarter, beating a $890 million estimate from analysts.—
Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
11 Sep. 2025
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Wasn’t the entire point of season two making both the audience and Ted realize all the ways in which his ultra-chipper attitude and impenetrable optimism were a mask for decades of repressed sadness?—
Daniel Fienberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
10 Mar. 2023
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The chipper Brydon, recommitted to his family after his infidelities in the second installment, is enjoying greater professional success.—
Alex Shephard,
The New Republic,
19 May 2020
Adjective
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This week, a crescent moon will join, shining close to Jupiter before featuring in a rare close conjunction with Venus and bright star Regulus.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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Even a half block away, the air smells sweet and bright, like seared shellfish, sharp vinegar, and the blistery green of sizzling herbs.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
14 Sep. 2025
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The opposition leader maintains close ties with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, one of the most enthusiastic proponents in the Cabinet of this particular naval buildup.—
Gisela Salim-Peyer,
The Atlantic,
12 Sep. 2025
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In the same piece from Heyman, Phillies president of baseball operations David Dombrowski gave an even more enthusiastic quote about a potential Schwarber reunion.—
Jackson Roberts,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Sparkly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sparkly. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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