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ardor

[ahr-der] / ˈɑr dər /


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The wait does not seem to have cooled anyone's ardor.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

Happily, Mr. Hamilton, who retains his boyish handsomeness, infuses this recollected ardor with convincing feeling.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026

That hasn’t dimmed the ardor of rich Indian families for pre-IPO investment yet, Pasupuleti says.

From Barron's ● Nov. 20, 2025

Over a bar piano and later behind closed doors, they bond over an affinity for rural songs thick with hardship, ardor and longing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2025

Hamlet did not contend with me but loosened his embrace, and his ardor cooled like an ember when the wind ceases to blow.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

Neither he nor manager Dave Roberts care to attribute the dip in production to the ardors of catching nearly every game.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2023

Damien Chazelle’s follow-up to “La La Land,” his swooning valentine to the movie musical, more closely resembles the film that preceded it, “Whiplash,” in its visceral attention to the rigors and ardors of achieving greatness.

From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2019

The boundless aspirations and ardors of young people are themselves the core of his romanticism.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 16, 2017

I also insist that to a billion contemporary Chinese, Mao Tse-tung has a lot more to answer for than the merry chaos and inscrutable epigrams this opera uses to recall his reckless ardors.

From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2011

The regal air, the prophetic ardors, the apocalyptic vision, Mr. Thompson has them all.

From The Hound of Heaven by Francis Thompson


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