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Noun
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Deregulation While congressional action obviously is required to eliminate agencies and enabling statutes outright, legitimate deregulation can begin with the same zeal that created overregulation.—
Clyde Wayne Crews Jr,
Forbes.com,
12 May 2025 -
Joyce, with visionary zeal, puts her foot down at staging yet another production of Oklahoma!—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
23 Apr. 2025
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The Broader, Post-DOGE Agenda Looking beyond DOGE (and beyond the swampy aspects), a broader survey of Trump’s executive orders reveals DOGE as one part of a larger agenda streamlining spending and regulation—sometimes with greater fervor than the DOGE directives themselves.—
Clyde Wayne Crews Jr,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2025
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The fan base had embraced Lance’s potential with a protective fervor, even before he was drafted, and many reacted angrily to any suggestion of his struggles.—
Michael Silver,
New York Times,
20 May 2025
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The clash of zealotry and conciliation, the question of how best to do the right thing, animates the O’Dwyer story in ways eerie and often striking.—
Dan Morrison,
USA Today,
28 May 2025
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This has been a show largely about how zealotry can interfere with reason and compassion, which is plainly evident in the cascading disasters that end the Jedi’s and the witches’ time on Brendok.—
Noel Murray,
Vulture,
10 July 2024
Noun
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His face is grim, lacking the exuberance and devil-may-care attitude visible in earlier paintings.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
20 May 2025
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That youthful exuberance paved the way for Fleury to play more than 20 years at the highest level.—
Dane Mizutani,
Twin Cities,
5 May 2025
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This contrasts with an apparent upcoming boom in Europe, although this is based on government coercion rather than enthusiasm for EVs.—
Neil Winton,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
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The club is led by driver and CEO Tom Slingsby, the Australian 2012 Olympic gold medalist, who shared his enthusiasm for adding Jackman and Reynolds to the crew.—
Anna Lazarus Caplan,
People.com,
5 June 2025
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