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
Noun
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Walter was an accomplished singer and Marian played the piano, but Crenshaw evidently did not inherit a talent for music.—
Kelefa Sanneh,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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Even as a young writer, her talent for digging up interesting stats, along with her contagious positivity and love for the game, set her apart in a crowded media landscape.—
Maddie Lee,
Los Angeles Times,
3 May 2026
Noun
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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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Learning about her aptitude for difficult conversations, a counselor directed her toward social work instead.—
Jen Christensen,
CNN Money,
1 May 2026
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Murray-Boyles separates himself with his defensive aptitude, though.—
Eric Koreen,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2026
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The oversized gift was presented on April 28 in Washington, DC, during King Charles III and Queen Camilla's four‑day state visit to the United States.—
Kathryn Palmer,
USA Today,
29 Apr. 2026
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His gift is an uncanny ability to solve crimes that leave the LAPD baffled, armed only with the savvy and dry humor reminiscent of the gumshoe detectives of the noir genre.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
28 Apr. 2026
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“Flair.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flair. Accessed 10 May. 2026.
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