fervor
Example Sentences
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Much of that fervor can be traced back to the so-called DeepSeek moment in early 2025, when the Chinese startup released a large language model seen as a rival to OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026
She’s reiterating what she’s read with such fervor that she grips the book not like a story, but like a treasure.
From Salon • Feb. 14, 2026
Given the present fervor for gold, and the corresponding aversion to bitcoin, this call from JPMorgan’s global markets strategist Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou is quite the take.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 5, 2026
In “Canticle,” a debut from Janet Rich Edwards, a young woman named Aleys enters religious life in 13th-century Bruges, Belgium, after a Franciscan, Brother Lukas, witnesses her fervor.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2026
They watched the moon carefully and calculated calendar days with more fervor than when they added up their gambling tabs.
From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin
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