zeal
Example Sentences
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By the following month, the zeal had died out, partly due to a valuation correction in software.
From Barron's • May 19, 2026
But Elham, a contentious and fiercely competitive student, suspects that Marjan’s zeal for anglophone culture, including Hollywood romantic comedies, masks a resentment for the Iranian life she is now stuck with.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2026
Mr. Smith’s career has been marked by unusual zeal to push novel theories stretching criminal law beyond reasonable bounds.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026
What he did have was a lab, called Flapping Airplanes, a novel idea for training AI models and a zeal to hire talented young researchers eager to tackle AI’s biggest problems.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2026
Your crime: too much zeal in the protection of those you love.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
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