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But evidence is exciting researchers, and they’re keen to learn more.

From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026

Huang could be beneficial to an intelligence official keen on getting a sense of Trump’s thinking on U.S. strategy as it relates to chips, according to Bresnick.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026

Caution persists regarding potential new waves of volatility in French government bonds, or OATs, “given uncertainties about next protests, budget negotiations and investors not yet keen to add a lot of risk,” they say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Chelsea were keen and Jacquet was rated highly internally at Stamford Bridge but he chose the Reds.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

A keen swimmer, Elizebeth considered herself an “ardent bicyclist,” too.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

Dr Caulfield said she was "delighted” to see Róis “proudly performing her keens to full houses, with no shame or stigmatisation involved, just audiences loving her bravery and skill".

From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2025

Benjamin Wallfisch’s score keens and groans ominously, sometimes dipping into synthy electronic moments.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2024

She’s got a beaten-up suitcase at her feet and keens softly into her lap.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 14, 2019

He has too much of his father in him, the forlorn trumpet of John Williams’ score keens.

From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2019

The priests walk slowly around the pyre, saying antique prayers, and the crowd, all in black, ignoring the black priests, keens.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

The new startup wants to genetically modify man’s best friend to make them run faster, have a keener sense of smell and avoid common genetic conditions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Personally, I would be much keener to boast about that one.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

Dior designer Jonathan Anderson appeared keener than most to take some risks.

From Barron's ● Jan. 25, 2026

What they were keener to talk about was life in Henderson, a city they’d lived in and loved for a long time now—including for the MMA connection.

From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2024

John Faa had been supervising the unloading of the ship, and was keen to hear about the witch consul’s words, and even keener to learn of the bear.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman

Tennis is a sport that rewards our keenest attention.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

Among the candidates for Fed chairman, Kevin Warsh seems keenest to abandon the current regime.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025

For our money, Jim is both the funniest and keenest politics writer in the United States—which is to say, readers, your long national nightmare is over!

From Slate ● Aug. 30, 2025

For five years it hosted the country's finest and keenest skateboarders, witnessing flips and tricks as a new subculture boomed in popularity.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2025

Her keenest attention was awakened; she longed to hear more, and was grateful to her uncle for saying:

From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

“My boy, my little boy, come home to us, my little boy,” she keened over the body.

From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2022

But whether the wind produced a lion’s roar, or merely keened or whistled or hummed, at its peak it was clocked by the National Weather Service at Reagan National Airport at 29 mph.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 29, 2020

Well, the souls howled and keened, as distressed souls are known to do, since they understood that a garden that nobody visited was not worth cultivating.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 22, 2019

While the violin lines of “Where Are U Now” keened behind him, his face was slick with sweat.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2015

For ten hours over two days she keened over Jimmy Zizmo’s empty coffin, reciting the mirologhia.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Gilgamesh’s lament is not the stylized keening of epic tradition—not Achilles’ highfalutin howls after Hector strikes down Patroclus—but something rawer, humbler, more recognizably human.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

Only a handful of authentic keening songs were recorded from traditional singers, which Róis referenced on the record.

From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2025

Shift to Sport mode and the engine will hold at a high, keening rpm, trying to charge the battery faster than the driver can drain it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2025

When I set out to write this, I admit, I meant it to be as rueful as Earl’s keening deathbed monologue about “the goddamn regret.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2024

“I used to think it was immoral to be unhappy,” he continued, as though keening aloud in solitude.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller