passion
Usage
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Passion is strong or violent emotion, often so powerful that it takes over the mind or judgment: stirred to a passion of anger. Emotion is applied to an intensified feeling: agitated by emotion. Feeling is a general term for a subjective point of view as well as for specific sensations: to be guided by feeling rather than by facts; a feeling of sadness, of rejoicing. Sentiment is a mixture of thought and feeling, especially refined or tender feeling: Recollections are often colored by sentiment.
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Scott Martin, Forestry England manager for Bourne Woods, said: "His passion, expertise and dedication have made a lasting difference to these forests and the wildlife that depends on them."
From BBC ā Oct. 8, 2026
Buffett sometimes has personal connections to the entertainers, which helps explain at least some of the passion.
From The Wall Street Journal ā Oct. 6, 2026
He praised her "breadth of knowledge and passion" and called her "the ultimate breaker of the glass ceiling", adding: "She will be greatly missed and my sincere thoughts are with her family."
From BBC ā Oct. 1, 2026
“And so you just come here with a passion and a goal to be informative and entertaining and be a part of Showtime.”
From Los Angeles Times ā Oct. 1, 2026
Her family depended on her artist’s income, yet her passion led her right back to her boxes of caterpillars.
From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman
In Mr. Fiennes’s view, “no other French author has written with such intensity and such an exquisitely sharp eye for the natural world, or indeed about the needs and passions of the human one.”
From The Wall Street Journal ā Sep. 25, 2026
The relationship didn’t last, but the move led her down an unexpected new path shaped by two of her passions: cats and vintage wares.
From Los Angeles Times ā Sep. 7, 2026
They knew that Roman strongmen like Marius and Caesar had been products of democracy—demagogues lifted up by the passions of the crowd.
From The Wall Street Journal ā Sep. 2, 2026
In its IPO prospectus about a decade later, the company pitched itself as a way for sports enthusiasts to share their adventures and passions.
From MarketWatch ā Sep. 2, 2026
Genêt had fled Philadelphia and its epidemic for Manhattan in September, but the passions surrounding him and the Neutrality Act seemed to have died along the way.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
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