passion
Usage
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Passion is strong or violent emotion, often so powerful that it takes over the mind or judgment: stirred to a passion of anger. Emotion is applied to an intensified feeling: agitated by emotion. Feeling is a general term for a subjective point of view as well as for specific sensations: to be guided by feeling rather than by facts; a feeling of sadness, of rejoicing. Sentiment is a mixture of thought and feeling, especially refined or tender feeling: Recollections are often colored by sentiment.
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Capital raised in less than six months for the second private-equity fund from Stride Consumer Partners, which targets investments in “founder-led passion brands.”
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 30, 2026
"Yes, football is our passion, but we are normal human beings as well and maybe that's something the world doesn't always see."
From BBC β Sep. 30, 2026
His parents were not enthused about this passion because, as Batter notes, “the words ‘I made a killing in poetry’ have never been uttered.”
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 29, 2026
It isn’t an arrogance or nonchalant lack of passion.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 27, 2026
It was a novel idea for its day and Tante Jans threw all the passion of her nature into it.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
He said, as a child, he had "quite a lot of time to practice" his creative passions.
From BBC β Sep. 29, 2026
The humor comes from their passions not seeming worthy of the level of seriousness with which they pursue them.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 25, 2026
"It's a place I don't want to come back to. I want to live my life, enjoy my passions and my memories of Ralph," he said.
From BBC β Sep. 8, 2026
It complemented his fragmented musical architecture, just as the blocked passions of the film’s characters are captured in his unresolved harmonies.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 4, 2026
Somehow, in all my years of schooling, I hadn’t managed to think through my own passions and how they might match up with work I found meaningful.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
Vocabulary lists containing passion
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 20β25
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Michelle Obama's Speech at the 2016 DNC
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