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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Yearning to be in a band, he started working with Bernard, whom he met online and shared his passion for the genre.
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 21, 2026
He doesn’t yell at officials in a display of passion like Tom Brady, only to be treated like Dez Bryant.
From Salon β Oct. 21, 2026
“We still need people with a passion to carry these ideas out,” Gross said.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 20, 2026
"I love people who take initiative, find their passion, are curious, and keep pushing to find an answer," Macauley said.
From Science Daily β Oct. 19, 2026
As she spoke I could see her husband’s face darken and draw together, as though the passion in him were shrivelling his being to its core.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
The Wall Street Journal spoke to Goldin about how the company researches people’s passions and turns these into products and marketing campaigns.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 18, 2026
Above them hang paintings, art being another of Perea’s passions, most of them made by his friends.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 21, 2026
"It's a place I don't want to come back to. I want to live my life, enjoy my passions and my memories of Ralph," he said.
From BBC β Sep. 8, 2026
It complemented his fragmented musical architecture, just as the blocked passions of the film’s characters are captured in his unresolved harmonies.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 4, 2026
It was me who’d alter everything, putting my passions and career dreams on hold, to fulfill this piece of our dream.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
Vocabulary lists containing passion
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Michelle Obama's Speech at the 2016 DNC
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