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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The old chestnut of the England team not wanting it enough, not having enough pride or passion, cannot be seen here.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
Under the slogan "We are unbearable," it launched an advert showing fans from different teams sitting in a therapy circle complaining about Argentines' unbridled passion for football.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
The media are filled with passion for human-rights causes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
But despite all of this swift and massive growth, Letterboxd’s ethos has remained extremely simple: Cinephilia can be a solitary passion, but it’s made better with friends.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
Following Kennedy’s assassination, President Lyndon Johnson embraced the antipoverty rhetoric with great passion, calling for an “unconditional war on poverty,” in his State of the Union Address in January 1964.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
Woodman rang the bell on the Nasdaq trading floor, and the company touted its products as a way to enable "people to capture their life's passions in ways they could have never done before."
From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026
As an artificial-intelligence researcher with a specialty in videogames, Togelius is caught in the middle of what he calls “an ongoing culture war” between his passions.
From MarketWatch ● May 23, 2026
We’re told that sharing our thoughts and passions increases our career survival odds.
From Salon ● May 4, 2026
One of Bright's passions is horses, and she hinted at the possibility of running her own yard in the future.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026
Poems were too close to prayer, rousing regrettable passions.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
Vocabulary lists containing passion
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 20–25
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Michelle Obama's Speech at the 2016 DNC
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