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effervescence

[ef-er-ves-uhns] / ˌɛf ərˈvɛs əns /




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It’s a great aperitif cocktail with effervescence and a calibrated bitter finish that will ring familiar to fans of traditional Negronis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

Such a response is called "collective effervescence," said Jeffrey Montez de Oca, a sociology professor at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs.

From Barron's ● Jul. 5, 2026

Raw, it has a crisp bite, with a licorice flavor that is somewhere between anise and the effervescence of a lemon-lime soda: refreshing, cool, neutralizing.

From Salon ● Mar. 23, 2025

And how could anyone resist letting go of pesky inhibitions with Herman’s empowering score filling up Pasadena Playhouse with pure effervescence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2024

Mrs. Lawrence missed Emeline and the way her effervescence and physical brightness—her prettiness and sunflower hair—lit the sullen halls of Holmes’s building.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

His quips, and cranks, his whims, and jollities, and jocund mischief, are but the effervescences of exuberant young life, the wild music of the mountain stream.

From Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales by Robert L. Taylor

But, sir, if in the course of forty years, there have been undue effervescences of party in New England, has the same thing happened nowhere else?

From American Eloquence, Volume 1 Studies In American Political History (1896) by Alexander Johnston

His face was lined and worried with thought, such as had left him untroubled since the effervescences of his early youth.

From Kimono by John Paris

She was all awake and alive now, as if the heady rumours of the streets, with their long effervescences of light, had passed into her veins like wine.

From The Reef by Edith Wharton

There is no need that we should beat down the impulse of heroism in the human character, and be upon our guard against the effervescences and excess of a generous sentiment.

From Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author by William Godwin




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