ardor
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He policed brushback pitches with ardor and once called a night game for darkness when lighting malfunctions compromised visibility near home plate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
Investors could well lose some ardor for Ferrari if it can’t get the electric rollout right.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 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
Van Patten and De Domenico plausibly capture that youthful ardor while making it obvious why their displays of affection translate poorly to local police officials unprepared to investigate a murder that quickly drew international scrutiny.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2025
Dr. Trefusis, I could tell, quickened them all with his ardor in promoting the excellence of the Royal Ethiopians, our willingness to fight, our profound interest in our success in this contest.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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
His eyes ran over the letter full of sweet ardors; and when he thought of replying to them—or leaving them unanswered—his brow went moist and his heart sick.
From Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain by Orson Lowell
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Grade 11, List 3
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