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
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.
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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
At Atletico, his natural brio repeatedly slammed into the brick wall of Diego Simeone’s personality.
—Jack Lang, The Athletic, 9 Feb. 2025
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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
At Atletico, his natural brio repeatedly slammed into the brick wall of Diego Simeone’s personality.
—Jack Lang, The Athletic, 9 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brio
Noun
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Plants have spreading roots that benefit from division every one to three years to maintain plant vigor.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
29 Sep. 2025
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Eian Bain’s squad with Bridgewater-Raynham showed impressive vigor against a state titan in Mansfield before falling on a walk-off field goal (a 24-21 loss).—
Brendan Connelly,
Boston Herald,
13 Sep. 2025
Noun
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His big, bright smile, infectious energy and eternal positivity created a presence that continually uplifted others.—
Reice Shipley,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Oct. 2025
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But sure enough, the artist born Frederick John Philip Gibson enlisted Amy Taylor and company for his drum n’ bass-inflected latest single, harnessing the group’s energy and then exploding it with Gesaffelstein-like sirens and typically all-over-the-place vocal triggers.—
Andrew Unterberger,
Billboard,
3 Oct. 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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“Brio.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brio. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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