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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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 ● Oct. 1, 2026
Capital raised in less than six months for the second private-equity fund from Stride Consumer Partners, which targets investments in “founder-led passion brands.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
His parents were not enthused about this passion because, as Batter notes, “the words ‘I made a killing in poetry’ have never been uttered.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Yet she felt compelled to keep that passion hidden.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
Wild was the wrestle which should be paramount; but another feeling rose and triumphed: something hard and cynical: self-willed and resolute: it settled his passion and petrified his countenance: he went on—
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
He said, as a child, he had "quite a lot of time to practice" his creative passions.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
The humor comes from their passions not seeming worthy of the level of seriousness with which they pursue them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
In a city famous for Russian-language writers and musicians, it has provoked strong passions.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 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 ● Sep. 2, 2026
With the Renaissance revival of Stoicism the word ‘philosophical’ acquired a new meaning: philosophers, it was held, were able to moderate their passions and to be unmoved by the blows of fortune.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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