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Maybe it's out of habit or maybe because, in their zeal to slash government services and worker rolls, Republicans overplay their hand.

From BBC

Most alarmingly, he’s been terrorizing immigrants with something akin to zeal, painting food cart operators and day care workers as an existential threat to middle America.

From Salon

The week started full of optimism and zeal.

From BBC

Given the level of opposition to removing those barriers, Hendry says, Reform UK's zeal for shale gas was mistaken.

From BBC

The newly graduated 26-year-old and devout Catholic was just three months into a job as a customs official - which he had taken on with his usual zeal, by refusing to be bribed.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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