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zeal

[zeel] / zil /


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"With the martyrdom of the supreme leader, his path and mission neither will be lost nor will be forgotten, on the other hand, they will be pursued with greater vigour and zeal," a presenter said.

From Barron's

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

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

Once the zeal of republican liberty cooled, 19th-century universities provided homes to such scientists of sacrifice as ethnographers, philologists, sociologists, historians and anthropologists.

From The Wall Street Journal

Their opinions may be diametrically opposed but they are held with equivalent zeal.

From BBC