passionate
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Sonko had generated a passionate following among Senegal's disaffected youth ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
From Barron's • May 24, 2026
"He was fierce, he was passionate, he was immensely skilled and he cared deeply about the sport and fans. ... Nascar lost a giant of the sport today, far too soon."
From BBC • May 21, 2026
I have advice for him: Is there anything you are truly passionate about?
From MarketWatch • May 20, 2026
Jesenská, a gentile, was a Czechoslovak citizen living in Vienna, and when she received Kafka’s permission to translate him into Czech the two began a passionate correspondence.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
This caused him to mistrust all purely rational descriptions of human behavior as incompatible with the more passionate stirrings he felt within his own personality.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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