as in talent
a special and usually inborn ability
a person with a flair for making friends quickly
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Recent Examples of flair
For all the attacking flair and brilliance that Desire Doué, Ousmane Dembélé and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia possess, their enthusiasm and tenacity to defend from the front makes this team almost suffocating to come up against.
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Aleks Klosok, CNN Money, 6 May 2026
Hashtag India, meanwhile, is a chain that was founded in 2023 in McKinney, Texas, with the goal of spreading authentic Indian food with a modern flair.
—Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 5 May 2026
Nonetheless, Munden added his own visual flair, with color saturation, distorted close-ups to show the characters’ disorientation, and mesmerizing shots of nature writ large (raging fires, roiling ocean waves, torrential storms) and small (ants devouring a bug).
—Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2026
Plus Derry Girls’s Saoirse-Monica Jackson pops up as a raver with a flair for sedatives!
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 4 May 2026
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Aleks Klosok, CNN Money, 6 May 2026
Hashtag India, meanwhile, is a chain that was founded in 2023 in McKinney, Texas, with the goal of spreading authentic Indian food with a modern flair.
—Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 5 May 2026
Nonetheless, Munden added his own visual flair, with color saturation, distorted close-ups to show the characters’ disorientation, and mesmerizing shots of nature writ large (raging fires, roiling ocean waves, torrential storms) and small (ants devouring a bug).
—Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2026
Plus Derry Girls’s Saoirse-Monica Jackson pops up as a raver with a flair for sedatives!
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 4 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for flair
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With fashion spending projected to rise sharply, global buyers see Saudi designers not only as creative talents, but as commercial partners with access to a large, affluent consumer base.—
FMG Studios,
Footwear News,
10 May 2026
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Aretha has always represented for me the empowerment of women in all its facets, a soul singer who has influenced generations and whose talent continues to move us to our very core.—
Julyssa Lopez,
Rolling Stone,
10 May 2026
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Saka brought nous to the right side and had the knack to be in the right place at the right time for the decisive moment.—
Amy Lawrence,
New York Times,
6 May 2026
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The author, a professor named Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, proved to have a knack not just for provocative legal essays but for coinages, too.—
Kelefa Sanneh,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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For this class, the premise is that your purpose in life lies to the intersection of your values, your aptitudes and your interests.—
Dana Taylor,
USA Today,
6 May 2026
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If the team stays bought in and the coach shows an early aptitude for resolving conflicts, change can be a good thing.—
Joe Buscaglia,
New York Times,
4 May 2026
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The differences between racial attitudes in America and those in Britain both pushed and pulled him out of his home country, but America needed that gift less than Britain did.—
Brian Seibert,
New Yorker,
13 May 2026
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According to the law, a school district may accept gifts, grants, and donations from any public or private source to implement SB 546.—
Lacey Beasley,
CBS News,
12 May 2026
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“Flair.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flair. Accessed 13 May. 2026.
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