confetti
noun
con·fet·ti
kən-ˈfe-tē 
: small bits or streamers of brightly colored paper made for throwing (as at weddings)
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Players leaping and bouncing off each other, sprinting to the side of the floor to scream at elated supporters, falling into their coaches’ arms for long embraces as the confetti fell.
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Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
The only smudge on an otherwise record-setting year came when the confetti fell at UPMC Cooper Fieldhouse in Pittsburgh and Ford Center in Evansville, Ind., as the Toros watched their opponents celebrated winning NCAA Division II national titles.
—Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2025
The emotions came from a dozen different places, but Ducharme’s first thought as the confetti began to fall was of Abby Zittoun, the 13-year-old friend of the program who died in early October after a seven-year battle with a rare form of nerve cancer.
—Emily Adams, Hartford Courant, 7 Apr. 2025
On Sunday, the team was standing on a podium catching confetti in KC.
—Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 10 Mar. 2025
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Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
The only smudge on an otherwise record-setting year came when the confetti fell at UPMC Cooper Fieldhouse in Pittsburgh and Ford Center in Evansville, Ind., as the Toros watched their opponents celebrated winning NCAA Division II national titles.
—Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2025
The emotions came from a dozen different places, but Ducharme’s first thought as the confetti began to fall was of Abby Zittoun, the 13-year-old friend of the program who died in early October after a seven-year battle with a rare form of nerve cancer.
—Emily Adams, Hartford Courant, 7 Apr. 2025
On Sunday, the team was standing on a podium catching confetti in KC.
—Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 10 Mar. 2025
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confetti
noun
con·fet·ti
kən-ˈfet-ē
: small bits of brightly colored paper made for throwing (as at weddings)
Etymology
from Italian confetti, plural of confetto "a little candy or bonbon"; so named because the paper bits were originally imitations of the candies thrown at festivals
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