with a passion
idiom
informal
—used to say that someone strongly dislikes someone or something
She hated him with a passion.
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The Magna Petra team is led by Jeffrey Max, a veteran startup entrepreneur and investor with a passion for space innovation.
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Leonard David, Space.com, 30 Sep. 2025
Rivard, once an adventure sports junkie with a passion for skiing, turned to art after an injury in his 20s left him immobile.
—Tim Corlett, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
In the late eighteen-nineties, when the New Croton Aqueduct was just beginning to pipe water into the Bronx from Westchester, James Reuel Smith, a wealthy classicist with a passion for cataloguing, used a bicycle to survey the springs and wells of Manhattan and the Bronx.
—Robert Sullivan, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
The camps were more or less divided between people who think McCarthy crossed a line with staff in several instances, and others who see him as a top-tier editor with a passion for journalistic results and less patience for staff who fall short.
—Max Tani, semafor.com, 8 Sep. 2025
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Leonard David, Space.com, 30 Sep. 2025
Rivard, once an adventure sports junkie with a passion for skiing, turned to art after an injury in his 20s left him immobile.
—Tim Corlett, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
In the late eighteen-nineties, when the New Croton Aqueduct was just beginning to pipe water into the Bronx from Westchester, James Reuel Smith, a wealthy classicist with a passion for cataloguing, used a bicycle to survey the springs and wells of Manhattan and the Bronx.
—Robert Sullivan, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
The camps were more or less divided between people who think McCarthy crossed a line with staff in several instances, and others who see him as a top-tier editor with a passion for journalistic results and less patience for staff who fall short.
—Max Tani, semafor.com, 8 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for with a passion
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“With a passion.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/with%20a%20passion. Accessed 4 Oct. 2025.
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