vehemence
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No revolutionary, Wood writes, “defended with more vehemence common ordinary people against the aristocracy—‘against being ridden like horses, fleeced like sheep, worked like cattle, and fed and cloathed like swine and hounds.’
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
Or, worse, when that world is breaking down with such vehemence that the air seems to grow more toxic by the minute?
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2024
The chief justice called the vehemence of the dissent “disturbing.”
From Washington Times ● Oct. 1, 2023
There can surely be no doubt of the vehemence with which Wales will attack England in their third game of the 2023 Six Nations.
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2023
Mr. Clyde said with such vehemence that Ignatius was able to see the purple veins swelling around the whitened scar on his nose.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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