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as in enthusiasm
depth of feeling
your passion for your cause is admirable, but you still can't insult people who disagree with you
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as in love
a feeling of strong or constant regard for and dedication to someone
married at the age of 18, they share a passion that has lasted for over half a century
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as in desire
a strong wish for something
a passion to become a doctor
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as in emotion
a subjective response to a person, thing, or situation
people are sometimes slaves to their own passions
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as in feeling
passions plural
general emotional condition
people who are swayed by their passions and not by reason
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as in lust
intense sexual desire
their relationship began with passion but a deep love quickly grew between them
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as in lustfulness
sexual appetite
the kind of pent-up passion that comes from having spent the winter in remote isolation
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Recent Examples of passion
Chiarella felt the onscreen passion between Bird and Clausen early on, when the pair was just submitting self-tapes.
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William Earl,
Variety,
19 June 2026
This passion eventually led Judith Sheldon to become the Chairman of the Board for the San Francisco Silent Festival from 1999 to her passing in 2026.
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Noe Padilla,
USA Today,
19 June 2026
And when there’s still this much passion for an art form, someone will find a way to build something new around it.
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Dana Harris-Bridson,
IndieWire,
19 June 2026
This honors your passion in a unique way while also freeing up storage space.
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Melissa Epifano,
The Spruce,
19 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for passion
William Earl,
Variety,
19 June 2026
This passion eventually led Judith Sheldon to become the Chairman of the Board for the San Francisco Silent Festival from 1999 to her passing in 2026.
—
Noe Padilla,
USA Today,
19 June 2026
And when there’s still this much passion for an art form, someone will find a way to build something new around it.
—
Dana Harris-Bridson,
IndieWire,
19 June 2026
This honors your passion in a unique way while also freeing up storage space.
—
Melissa Epifano,
The Spruce,
19 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for passion
Recent Examples of Synonyms for passion
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More than one million workers participate, but enthusiasm fades during the Great Depression, signaling that such ownership is fragile without worker protections.
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And when the winning starts, the enthusiasm can leap at record speed.
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Plus, Worley goes to bat about his love of baseball.
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As a teen, the Regalis Foods founder pooled his savings to buy a kilo of black truffles from France after falling in love with the delicacy at a restaurant near his childhood home in Arkansas.
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Puncture wounds are a classic example, but lacerations, fractures that break the skin, burns, crush injuries and even relatively minor cuts can also pose a risk if they are contaminated with dirt or debris.
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The crowd, at Hashemite Plaza, grew and nine people injured in the crush were hospitalized, the Jordan News Agency reported, citing the Public Security Directorate.
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Daphne Koller, Coursera co-founder, reflected on her early programming days with BASIC, driven by the intellectual beauty of mathematical models and a desire for real-world impact.
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These thin sheets of lead containing scratches of supernatural desires were used to sway a court case, target a rival, or even a lover, as per Archaeology News.
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Having a separate room to have this man handle his emotions may be helpful too.
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If emotions swell, step back for ten minutes, breathe with music, then return to your art with a clearer, kinder tone.
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Whether those moments carry the same depth of feeling by the time the finale rolls around is another matter.
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For someone whose path to that sisterhood involved survival shows, multiple years of training, and a college deposit paid the day before her life changed, that feeling took a long time to find.
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Exploding The Weeknd’s shivery lust with the guttural churn of Deftones, this is toxic codependency music, the perfect soundtrack for Obsession if the movie were more tasteless.
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Politicians are still destroying the peace just for their own power lust.
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For teams whose game plans depend on speed, relentless pressing or high-intensity transitions, excessive heat changes the game entirely.
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The result is a movement whose surfaces absorb and redirect light in alternating intensities, oscillating in an almost alchemical interplay of matte depth and metallic sheen as the wrist moves.
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“Passion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/passion. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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