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Recent Examples of spiritedness
As this sequence plays out, the social fabric further shreds and unravels; trust circles shrink and become ever more homogeneous; and hostility, mean spiritedness, and a general hardening take hold in society.
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Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 3 May 2026
This is a year for ensuring that your personal style reflects your spiritedness, heart, and creative eye.
—Maressa Brown, InStyle, 9 Jan. 2026
Alvarez took to this culture of free-spiritedness.
—E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025
Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 3 May 2026
This is a year for ensuring that your personal style reflects your spiritedness, heart, and creative eye.
—Maressa Brown, InStyle, 9 Jan. 2026
Alvarez took to this culture of free-spiritedness.
—E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for spiritedness
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She’s lived in Manhattan for twenty years, but still speaks of New York with a new arrival’s ebullience.—
Julian Lucas,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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Becky, who Brewer portrays as a fading cheerleader with an ebullience that turns sinister in a snap, refuses to take the hint after Max tries to drop her after a night on the town.—
Brent Lang,
Variety,
7 Apr. 2026
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Wyle previously praised his Pitt costars, including Moafi, for their acting chops and eagerness to return to the stage.—
Kimberlee Speakman,
PEOPLE,
28 May 2026
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The other candidates’ blackout is compounded by the eagerness of debate mediators to interrogate the candidates on other issues while failing to bring up education.—
Dan Walters,
Mercury News,
27 May 2026
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Bloom’s shares have risen by more than 200% since the start of the year on the back of investor enthusiasm over demand for its technology to power data centers.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
2 June 2026
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No technical area is big enough to contain his enthusiasm, let alone the minimalist version at Bournemouth, which is the smallest in the Premier League.—
Thom Harris,
New York Times,
2 June 2026
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Not to make too much of what is a relatively small (though not insignificant) role, but Jude’s anomalous casting as Malia’s Marcus Aurelius-quoting, crane operator dad does carry with it a current of eccentric vivacity that the rest of the film sorely lacks.—
Jessica Kiang,
Variety,
18 May 2026
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Smelling salts are thought to stimulate consciousness, a pick-me-up of sorts to boost vivacity and sharpness.—
Jason Jones,
New York Times,
15 May 2026
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The suits reduce drag, boost buoyancy and led to a number of records in 2008-09 before World Aquatics, the sport’s international governing body, did away with them.—
Vic Tafur,
New York Times,
25 May 2026
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The goal was to reduce drag and increase forward thrust without relying on bulky buoyancy systems.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
14 May 2026
Noun
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Wine-Coca conduces to mental activity and clearness, prevents fatigue and exhaustion, brings cheerfulness and sweet refreshing sleep.—
AJ Willingham,
AJC.com,
29 May 2026
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This kind of optimism and cheerfulness can make leaders more empathetic and pleasant to work with, partly because psychology research finds that positive moods increase helping, generosity and interpersonal understanding.—
Aditya Simha,
The Conversation,
7 May 2026
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The researchers, however, did not find meaningful improvements in post-exercise muscle recovery, soreness or tendon mechanical properties (strength, springiness and stretch resistance).—
Deirdre Bardolf,
FOXNews.com,
5 Mar. 2026
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Alongside the proteins, the crunch of the egg roll and springiness of the noodles made the bowl texturally playful.—
Sean Timberlake,
Sacbee.com,
27 Nov. 2025
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Barcelona and Bayern’s keenness to acquire him underlines both the paucity of the top-level winger market, as well as his own unique characteristics.—
Pol Ballús,
New York Times,
29 May 2026
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The keenness of my letdown was dismaying.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 Feb. 2026
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“Spiritedness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spiritedness. Accessed 4 Jun. 2026.
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