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wellspring

[wel-spring] / ˈwɛlˌsprɪŋ /


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The company has made a big bet on Japanese animation known as anime, a wellspring of pop-culture hits such as “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

No one has to tell Adams about the economic hurdles that nonprofit theaters, the wellspring of new plays in America, are confronting.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 8, 2026

Certainly there is a wry truth to Picasso’s opinion on artistic progress writ large, yet Ms. Chan is also persuasive in saying that new creativity springs from the same ancient wellspring Picasso was talking about.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 23, 2026

"Make no mistake, Erivo remains a powerhouse, with pipes that shake the heavens and a wellspring of unforced emotional intensity that never runs dry."

From BBC Nov. 19, 2025

Hamilton was, after George Washington, the most powerful figure in the Federalist party and, his advocates would have added, the intellectual wellspring for all the political energy that Washington merely symbolized.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis




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