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Animals have been at the forefront of political image-making in the US for more than a century, ever since President Theodore Roosevelt was pictured standing triumphantly over big game he had dispatched.
Yet there is still unresolved mystery in the denouement, about why Blatter came to make that trembling, halting announcement to stand down four days after he triumphantly hailed his own re-election.
England women's rugby World Cup winners triumphantly pogoing with their trophy.
After a 15-year career that has spawned a record-breaking run of 14 No 1s and platinum success with 10 studio albums and two Greatest Hits collections, Irish boyband Westlife will be rising triumphantly from their stools one last time this Saturday, at the second of two sold-out farewell shows.
"The format," Wright declares triumphantly , "was deemed generic!" Downstairs in the shopping centre I find Blossom and Nick, a rather eccentric pair who met 12 years ago in a queue for The Wright Stuff and quickly became engaged.
When we hear today's politicians offering us a choice between liberal freedom and fundamentalist oppression, and triumphantly asking the rhetorical question, "Do you want women to be excluded from public life and deprived of their rights?
Most triumphantly of all, let's head to Radio 1's Newsbeat where, with classic Walshean logic, Louis has tunnelled deep into the heart of the problem with TV singing shows, noting that they're "not what they used to be – they have too much singing in them".
Clashing capos Maroni and Falcone bring all-out war to the streets of Gotham in the first-season finale, unaware that it's all part of Penguin's scheme to create a power vacuum into which he can triumphantly waddle.
That," said Sir Cyril triumphantly , "is what he can bring to education".
This week, Wootton was granted a Mayfair sit-down with triumphantly returning judges Simon Cowell and Cheryl Cole, and was so intent on relaying the machinations of this secretive powerbase that he penned a first-person thinkpiece on the matter, almost as though he'd been allowed to sit in on the Yalta conference and felt moved to offer the first draft of history for posterity.
We named her Olga and Dad triumphantly joked that if Australians expected Italian goatherds, he'd indulge that expectation, too.
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The adverb "triumphantly" primarily functions to modify verbs , adding a layer of meaning that emphasizes the victorious and joyful manner in which an action is performed. Ludwig's examples show how it enriches descriptions of actions, imbuing them with a sense of accomplishment.
Expression frequency: Very common
