oomph
Example Sentences
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The group has such a distinctive sound; this album just has extra oomph compared to the last one.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
Combine their buy the dip, chase the rip behavior with professional investors like commodity trading advisers who already followed momentum strategies, and bounces have a lot more oomph these days.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026
Craig is on the bench and offers plenty of oomph.
From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2026
As she tells it, the special oomph that soy sauce adds to a bake is, in a word, umami.
From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2025
Numbness was setting in, but I had just enough oomph left to get me through finals.
From "Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie" by Jordan Sonnenblick
