hooray
Britishinterjection
interjection
Example Sentences
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Apple also has the Brad Pitt movie “F1,” so… hooray for corporate synergy!
From MarketWatch
The newborns slept through the singing—as well as the hip-hip, hoorays!— that followed, but the noise did manage to rouse Simon.
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She was well aware that the “hoorays” made five cheers, not three, but there was no need to split hairs.
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“An invitation? Really? Oh, Fredrick, that is the best news I have had since arriving in London! Hooray, hooray!”
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“And lots of them don’t work, so you say ‘hooray’ when they do.”
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