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Recent Examples of Synonyms for élan vital
Noun
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Loyalty programs, which in large part make money from selling frequent flyer miles to banks, have now become the lifeblood of many airlines.—
Leslie Josephs,
CNBC,
26 Oct. 2025 -
Gold remained a lifeblood of the nation into modern times.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
15 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Millennials, typically defined as individuals born between the early 1980s and the mid-1990s, are now at a point in their lives where their generational nostalgia is front and center.—
Saba Hamedy,
NBC news,
7 Nov. 2025
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Aldo Olivieri, il Gatto Magico (the Magic Cat), who had survived a fractured skull that required drilling to save his life and left him with chronic headaches, became the first-choice goalkeeper.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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“élan vital.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/%C3%A9lan%20vital. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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