earnest
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Construction on housing is expected to start in earnest next year on the campus of Vermont’s Goddard College, which closed in 2024.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026
McKinney only started campaigning in earnest five weeks ago, but managed to win votes with a tough-on-crime campaign — even as some categories of city crime have dipped to historic lows.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026
There’s an idealist’s energy here that grows a bit too earnest, but the information is accessible.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026
“Propeller One-Way Night Coach” is as earnest as they come, more candid than any memoir and more interesting than any biopic.
From Salon • Jun. 2, 2026
You might as well induce a belief that you are in earnest by inserting Mississippi, Detroit, or Winnipiprocket Pond as Connogocheque.”
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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