REVELS (IN) Synonyms: 49 Similar and Opposite Words

revels (in)

verb

present tense third-person singular of revel (in)

as in enjoys

to take pleasure in winter-weary residents reveling in the warm spring weather

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And among recent film offerings are movie shot locally as the Garden State enjoys a Hollywood production boom underpinned by film tax credits and other state incentives and local hires.

— Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 3 Oct. 2026
Staying away would mean accepting that people living through war, displacement and climate disaster become the last to benefit from technologies everyone else enjoys.

— Jeannie Annan, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026

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Sanabria likes to point out that no one currently sitting on the City Commission has endorsed him.

— Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2026
Widow’s Bay co-stars Kate O’Flynn as Patricia Moyer, a social outcast who works as Tom’s assistant and is convinced no one likes her — in part because very few people do.

— Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2026

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My mother savors her espresso slowly.

— Lucia Aronica, CNBC, 10 June 2026
In helming a tale of a lonely boy who savors friendship with a visitor from outer space, the American director drew on his own memories of childhood isolation.

— Will Gosner Britannica Editors June 8, Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 June 2026

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