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hur·rah
hu̇-ˈrȯ 
-ˈrä
less common variants of hooray
—used to express joy, approval, or encouragement
Hip, hip, hooray!
Hooray! I got the job!
Examples of hurrah in a Sentence
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William Harwood, CBS News, 9 Apr. 2024
The Cardinal has accomplished that feat 12 times in the tournament’s 22-year history and is a slim favorite to do so again this week in the Pac-12’s final collective hurrah.
—Jeff Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2024
When a favorite artist announces new tour dates, Vinson starts rallying friends and snapping up tickets, flights and hotel rooms for their next hurrah.
—Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2024
This year will be the last hurrah for MIPTV in Cannes.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Mar. 2024
After that, their plan was to head north, to the Great Barrier Reef, for a final, tropical hurrah, then return to Basel in time to start university.
—Fiona McFarlane, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
Polachek’s Brits 2024 look is the final hurrah in this era of volatile, directional style that has also leaned heavily on Acne and Mugler, before crescendoing with a vintage Olivier Theyskens look with blood vessels snaking down it at the Grammys.
—Alice Newbold, Vogue, 2 Mar. 2024
The Los Angeles institution will bow out of the city’s nightlife scene after 25 years with one more final hurrah on March 27.
—Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Jan. 2024
Though no one knew it at the time, Rote’s performance would stand as the pinnacle of his seventeen-year career, much as this day would stand as the last hurrah for the Detroit Lions, who were about to embark on six and half decades of unrelenting futility.
—Bill Morris, Detroit Free Press, 28 Jan. 2024
Noun
Ending an era in U.S. rocketry, United Launch Alliance fired off its 16th and final triple-core Delta 4 Heavy Tuesday, launching a classified spy satellite in the last hurrah of a storied family of rockets dating back to the dawn of the space age.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 9 Apr. 2024
The Cardinal has accomplished that feat 12 times in the tournament’s 22-year history and is a slim favorite to do so again this week in the Pac-12’s final collective hurrah.
—Jeff Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2024
When a favorite artist announces new tour dates, Vinson starts rallying friends and snapping up tickets, flights and hotel rooms for their next hurrah.
—Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2024
This year will be the last hurrah for MIPTV in Cannes.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Mar. 2024
After that, their plan was to head north, to the Great Barrier Reef, for a final, tropical hurrah, then return to Basel in time to start university.
—Fiona McFarlane, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
Polachek’s Brits 2024 look is the final hurrah in this era of volatile, directional style that has also leaned heavily on Acne and Mugler, before crescendoing with a vintage Olivier Theyskens look with blood vessels snaking down it at the Grammys.
—Alice Newbold, Vogue, 2 Mar. 2024
The Los Angeles institution will bow out of the city’s nightlife scene after 25 years with one more final hurrah on March 27.
—Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Jan. 2024
Though no one knew it at the time, Rote’s performance would stand as the pinnacle of his seventeen-year career, much as this day would stand as the last hurrah for the Detroit Lions, who were about to embark on six and half decades of unrelenting futility.
—Bill Morris, Detroit Free Press, 28 Jan. 2024
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“Hurrah.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hurrah. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.
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