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Noun
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His competitive zeal can be value-added — look at the 2022 and 2024 defenses, with the 2023 sandwiched in between.—
Zach Berman,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025 -
Manes admired Bukele’s reformist zeal, former colleagues said.—
T. Christian Miller,
ProPublica,
30 Sep. 2025
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Speaking specifically about those spreading transphobic views online, Ellis-Bextor said she was dismayed at the fervor with which many of them spoke.—
Stephen Daw,
Billboard,
6 Oct. 2025
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The legacy trade preference program lapsed Tuesday without a renewal from Congress, shocking some and disappointing many, including lawmakers, importers and the Sub-Saharan African (SSA) exporters and heads of state who have been lobbying with mounting fervor for an extension.—
Kate Nishimura,
Sourcing Journal,
30 Sep. 2025
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Mara will appear with her sister Kate next year in a film directed by Werner Herzog, who at 83 appears to have lost none of his verve.—
Joelle Diderich,
Footwear News,
5 Oct. 2025
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Is the group as tough-minded without Thibodeau’s patented verve?—
Fred Katz,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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But for all its stylistic brio and an overall mesmerizing look, in which even throwaway visuals (like the icy corpse of a solider frozen to his battlefield steed) sear themselves into your memory, Frankenstein remains the simple, direct story of a man and his nonbiological offspring.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
9 Sep. 2025
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My experience didn’t quite live up to Rich’s lavish praise, but I was indeed dazzled by Greenberg’s New York wit, which struck me as an acutely sensitive, off-angle version of George S. Kaufman’s Broadway brio.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
8 July 2025
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The grit and gusto that Groff brought to the cast album was hard-earned.—
Joe Lynch,
Billboard,
16 Sep. 2025
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His absence allowed Rangers to target this area with such gusto that more than half of the visitors’ touches in the final third during those opening 45 minutes came down the Wrexham left.—
Richard Sutcliffe,
New York Times,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Mulch may help rebuild topsoil and enhance water infiltration, potentially boosting plant vigor.—
Jon Stojan,
USA Today,
6 Oct. 2025
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It will be measured in the vigor of his curiosity, the depth of his attention, and the audacity of his explorations.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Oct. 2025
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At the same time, some automakers’ ardor for electric vehicles is cooling.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
16 Sep. 2025
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For me, that ardor finds one of its moving expressions in a small poem in Eternal Enemies, my first encounter with Zagajewski’s poetry.—
Elaine L. Wang
September 11,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
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Whatever post-radical pulse there is left sustaining us in the last 20 years is less about our vitality as a community and more about our successful rebrand into America's hottest commodity.—
Rodney Carmichael,
NPR,
1 Oct. 2025
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Riddick-Tynes’ production highlights the delicate sensitivity of female artistry while amplifying Ray’s uniquely free-spirited vitality.—
Billboard China,
Billboard,
1 Oct. 2025
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“élan.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/%C3%A9lan. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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