zeal

Example Sentences

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By the following month, the zeal had died out, partly due to a valuation correction in software.

From Barron's • May 19, 2026

There are others, though, whose own zeal and blind ambition are obvious.

From Salon • Apr. 12, 2026

But Kornev is young and infused with an idealistic zeal, refusing to let these goons stonewall him.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

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 • Jan. 25, 2026

In the spring of 1953 a large British team, organized with the righteous zeal and overpowering resources of a military campaign, became the third expedition to attempt Everest from Nepal.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer