as in vigor
active strength of body or mind
impressed the interviewers with his poise and brio
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Recent Examples of brio
Perhaps an adherence to Disney’s famously strict rules of the road for presenting its creative products, and/or maybe the smaller-scale economies in this production … whatever the cause, La Mirada’s trademark brio for animating up-beat, up-tempo musical productions is missing.
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Christopher Smith, Oc Register, 10 June 2025
Massimiliano Allegri will be Milan’s manager for the upcoming season and the 57-year-old has a reputation for sacrificing individual attacking brio for collective defensive solidity.
—Carl Anka, New York Times, 9 June 2025
But the twins haven’t lost any of their stylistic brio, upping the ante on gruesome imagery in this much bleaker film.
—Katie Walsh, Boston Herald, 30 May 2025
The untethered, anarchic, comic brio of Robbins’ novels feels incompatible with today’s world, as though the intervening years have been explicitly designed to stamp out this spirit and replace it with something that can be bought and sold, something governable.
—John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 22 Feb. 2025
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Christopher Smith, Oc Register, 10 June 2025
Massimiliano Allegri will be Milan’s manager for the upcoming season and the 57-year-old has a reputation for sacrificing individual attacking brio for collective defensive solidity.
—Carl Anka, New York Times, 9 June 2025
But the twins haven’t lost any of their stylistic brio, upping the ante on gruesome imagery in this much bleaker film.
—Katie Walsh, Boston Herald, 30 May 2025
The untethered, anarchic, comic brio of Robbins’ novels feels incompatible with today’s world, as though the intervening years have been explicitly designed to stamp out this spirit and replace it with something that can be bought and sold, something governable.
—John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 22 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brio
Noun
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Safdie shoots the table tennis sequences with breathtaking vigor, often capturing Chalamet dominating matches in long, single takes.—
David Canfield,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Oct. 2025
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Mulch may help rebuild topsoil and enhance water infiltration, potentially boosting plant vigor.—
Jon Stojan,
USA Today,
6 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Mir has more than 25 years of capital markets experience in energy infrastructure.—
Sheryl Estrada,
Fortune,
17 Oct. 2025
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Aalo Atomics is also hoping to build a data center on the same site, using the energy generated by its SMR to power its operations.—
Christian Datoc,
The Washington Examiner,
17 Oct. 2025
Noun
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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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“Brio.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brio. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.
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