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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

That hasn’t dimmed the ardor of rich Indian families for pre-IPO investment yet, Pasupuleti says.

From Barron's ● Nov. 20, 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

To love a Scorpio, then, is to fiercely protect their softness with the same shadowy ardor that they use to construct their inner adamantine fortresses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2024

It was in those moments, when she felt their coolness, that she reached back to revive her first ardor and said it again.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

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

Under this spell, all her rich, unquestioning ardors of reverence and fondness were as sacredly guided as the movements of Mignon, dancing blindfold amidst the eggs, with never a false step.

From The Friendships of Women by Alger, William Rounseville