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
There are others, though, whose own zeal and blind ambition are obvious.
From Salon • Apr. 12, 2026
Kim Il Sung’s upbringing gave the young man a front-row seat to the power of faith—its power to mobilize and inspire awe, devotion, fear or zeal.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026
She also implied that, in her zeal to fix the city’s problems, she quietly pushed out a dozen high-level bureaucrats, including those who dealt with trash pickup and police recruitment.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026
With wild yells very uncharacteristic of peaceful mice, the friends seized their staves and charged out, fired with new zeal.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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