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verve

[vurv] / vɜrv /


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The task now for Kerkez is to bring some of the attacking verve he was noted for with the Cherries to the Liverpool shirt.

From BBC • May 26, 2026

Mr. Corrigan not only directs with verve, but he and his co-writer Hope Elliott Kemp also find sly ways to say things without saying them.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

“As my father’s words to me, they ring out loud and clear today,” he said with the sort of verve that is rarely heard around the team these days.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2026

By Wednesday afternoon, the president had apparently decided to try to bring some of his verve and bombast to the White House’s East Room.

From Salon • Feb. 13, 2026

Teddy was just six months old at that point, but it was already clear that he had more personality, more verve, than I ever would.

From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman




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