spirit
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But Anderson and Dr. King changed all that, and it is good to know that their spirit has long endured, both above ground and below.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Eurovision said it believed the posts weren't in "the spirit of the competition", and ordered their removal.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
A similar spirit of reconciliation seems to be afoot in Wisconsin.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
Chinese officials have for months accused Japan of rekindling the spirit of Japanese militarism that fueled its brutal wartime conduct, a charge since picked up by North Korea and Russia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
I want to tell Father, “Stop, slow,” but I can feel how his spirit, his mind are trying to rush pass sadness.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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Koizumi left the shrine without responding to reporters' questions, but he later said on Instagram that he visited to "offer his sincere condolences to the heroic spirits who sacrificed their precious lives for the nation."
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
Carrick spoke to Mainoo "through the World Cup" and says he has been "in great spirits" this week.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
The central question remains whether Japan will become an economy where reforms have unleashed more animal spirits and spurred investment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Seeing his place in its current state has dampened his spirits but not his determination to rebuild.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
The spirits began to send messages not only through the sisters, but, Leah said, directed to them, “Make ready for the work.”
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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If you, too, have abandoned bars of soap in your bathroom, Dan’s spirited and incredibly thorough reporting might just make you think twice the next time you stock up.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026
Lifted by a spirited second-quarter showing, Mayo emerged for the second half and continued to rattle Kerry, shutting down space and flooding forward in numbers.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
The supposed victim, an annoying little girl who is perpetually at war with her father, begs to be spirited away by a woman she meets outside a fast-food joint.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
Some of it, probably, was warranted or in the spirited mission of liberty, as some will undoubtedly argue, but far from all of it.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026
It’s about the training and manning of the spirited, fighting goshawk.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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Parada, co-founder of the treasure-hunting outfit Finders Keepers, has long suspected the FBI of conducting a secret overnight dig for the gold and spiriting it away.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 6, 2023
It has carried out spectacular missions such as hunting down Arab enemies through Europe, capturing Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann and, with agents disguised as scuba diving instructors, spiriting Ethiopian Jews out to Israel.
From Reuters ● Aug. 1, 2023
L’Avant-Garde wastes zero time spiriting patrons across the pond.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2023
War heroes: A student spiriting supplies to soldiers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2022
“The Reds say you’re charging ’em with spiriting away the old man’s daughter.”
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
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