passionate
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The story goes that Ethel's family encouraged her to take restorative walks, and she became passionate about the countryside.
From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026
Mr. Sankar has written a passionate book, driven, one could argue, by the sort of devotion to America so typical of this country’s immigrants.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
Their passionate fans, who have loyally kept showing up for the last five years to watch the lousy basketball those decisions have wrought, will be wanting.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2026
He became famous in 1989 in then-communist Hungary, calling on Russians to go home in a passionate speech he gave in the dying days of the Soviet Union.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026
He was very old and weak and the effort at passionate speech had drained him.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
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