zeal
Example Sentences
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The bald, 6-foot-2 executive—who stands to make nearly $1 billion if he can help increase the company’s market capitalization by 500% in the next five years—has embraced it with zeal.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026
By the following month, the zeal had died out, partly due to a valuation correction in software.
From Barron's • May 19, 2026
But Kornev is young and infused with an idealistic zeal, refusing to let these goons stonewall him.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026
The Nebraska Association of Public Employees, a union representing more than 8,000 state workers, appreciates Foley’s zeal, executive director Justin Hubly said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
Nothing could hasten more the progress of these reflections & sentiments which are secretly undermining the institution which this mistaken zeal is laboring to secure agst. the most distant approach of danger.”
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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