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the gleeful atmosphere that envelops the host city of the Super Bowl
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Magal covered the protests with his usual gleeful disdain.
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Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
In text messages included in the original Complaint, Wayfarer’s publicist Jennifer Abel and Baldoni’s PR crisis consultant Melissa Nathan, were gloating and gleeful over the success of their campaign to destroy Lively’s career.
—Nicole Page, IndieWire, 6 Jan. 2025
Copeland, Anderson’s editor on the book, knew the public was predisposed to regard Anderson with blithe dismissiveness, if not gleeful cruelty.
—The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Jan. 2025
Even in this week’s episode, as two separate militias from Mechanical are making their way toward Judicial’s barricades, undaunted by Bernard’s supply blockade, the mayor seems almost gleeful.
—Noel Murray, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2024
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Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
In text messages included in the original Complaint, Wayfarer’s publicist Jennifer Abel and Baldoni’s PR crisis consultant Melissa Nathan, were gloating and gleeful over the success of their campaign to destroy Lively’s career.
—Nicole Page, IndieWire, 6 Jan. 2025
Copeland, Anderson’s editor on the book, knew the public was predisposed to regard Anderson with blithe dismissiveness, if not gleeful cruelty.
—The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Jan. 2025
Even in this week’s episode, as two separate militias from Mechanical are making their way toward Judicial’s barricades, undaunted by Bernard’s supply blockade, the mayor seems almost gleeful.
—Noel Murray, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2024
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“Gleeful.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gleeful. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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