vital force

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Kopitar was a vital force in both of the team’s championship runs, and that counts for a lot.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2023

This constituency is a vital force in the Democratic Party, but its inclusion at the table of power remains a frustrating work in progress.

From Washington Post • Feb. 7, 2023

The Italian physicist Alessandro Volta rejected the idea of ‘animal electricity’, proposed by his rival Luigi Galvani as a vital force that animates organic matter.

From Nature • Mar. 29, 2020

The widespread belief called vitalism held that organic compounds were formed by a vital force present only in living organisms.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

They think of the cortex as a chamber holding a formless cloud or jelly driven by a mysterious "vital force."

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman