as in nervous
easily excited by nature
an excitable child who needs a stable home life
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Recent Examples of excitable
Seriesly’s own pitching competitions were well attended and brought the excitable energy that newer talent brings to proceedings.
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Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 19 Sep. 2025
The actual spending is slower than many of the more excitable pundits had expected.
—Sophie Kiderlin, CNBC, 19 Sep. 2025
When pyramidal cells are too excitable, memory processing becomes noisy and disorganized.
—New Atlas, 11 Sep. 2025
Tony has fully bought into the dream, and Skarsgård plays him with excitable, boyish humor, almost as if the whole thing were a game.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2025
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Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 19 Sep. 2025
The actual spending is slower than many of the more excitable pundits had expected.
—Sophie Kiderlin, CNBC, 19 Sep. 2025
When pyramidal cells are too excitable, memory processing becomes noisy and disorganized.
—New Atlas, 11 Sep. 2025
Tony has fully bought into the dream, and Skarsgård plays him with excitable, boyish humor, almost as if the whole thing were a game.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for excitable
Adjective
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Although Buffalo has allowed just 47 points in its last two games (both losses), the Chiefs offense has people nervous.—
Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
23 Oct. 2025
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Not only are recent graduates nervous that their jobs could be replaced by AI, the application process is also becoming disrupted by the tools.—
Jessica Coacci,
Fortune,
23 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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With a roster that includes Margot Robbie, Miles Teller and Brooke Shields, Ullman says tariff anxiety shoehorned into an already volatile market and tense political climate has pushed clients to be far more conservative.—
Trey Williams,
HollywoodReporter,
22 Oct. 2025
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Gold has seen historic gains in 2025, its more-than-50% surge surpassing previous volatile periods such as after the September 11 attacks, the 2008 financial crisis or even the Covid-19 pandemic.—
John Liu,
CNN Money,
22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Some men avoid the gym or the beach altogether, wear baggy shirts year-round or feel anxious about intimacy.—
Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt,
CNN Money,
26 Oct. 2025
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Ottosson says reading the script was an anxious experience in itself.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
25 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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These early casualties highlight the risks posed by prolonged rainfall and unstable terrain, even before a storm reaches peak intensity.—
Hannah Parry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Oct. 2025
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Earlier types of electrides were unstable and difficult to reproduce.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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As estrogen decreases during menopause, nerves in the hypothalamus — an almond-size region deep inside the brain whose functions include helping regulate the body’s thermostat — become hyperactive and produce an overabundance of chemical signals called neurokinins.—
Jacqueline Howard,
CNN Money,
24 Oct. 2025
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Reading poetry out loud also requires us to pause for punctuation or line breaks, increasing our parasympathetic tone and dampening our hyperactive sympathetic nervous system.—
K.J.S. “Sunny” Anand,
Time,
15 Oct. 2025
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“Excitable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/excitable. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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