esprit
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The president told NBC News it would be an exercise in generating some "esprit de corps" - suggesting that he saw an opportunity to galvanise his troops.
From BBC • Sep. 30, 2025
“I think there’s certainly an esprit de corps, a unity, a camaraderie that comes from going through an experience like this,” Lee said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2025
The department had argued the policy was enforced “to increase discipline, uniformity, safety and esprit de corps throughout this Department,” according to a Washington Post report at the time.
From Washington Post • Nov. 26, 2022
Arlekin Players Theater emerged from that initiative, in 2009, and the troupe, which then mostly performed in Russian, developed an esprit de corps.
From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2022
In 1928, when I was nine, I belonged, with maximum esprit de corps, to an organization known as the Comanche Club.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
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