oomph
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Scotland looked done but Lister provided oomph and Carter batted through.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 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
And so Tchaikovsky’s Fifth and Sixth Symphonies emerged more fully characterized than did the Fourth, though all were delivered with considerable oomph.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2025
It can be stirred gently or with a bit more oomph.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2025
They haven’t the oomph to escape Earth’s gravity and, even if they did, there are no mechanisms to guide them across tens of millions of miles of space.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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