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zeal

[zeel] / zil /


Example Sentences

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Critics say that in its zeal to get its agenda into court, ADF has manufactured disputes.

From The Wall Street Journal

The madcap zeal that Madame Pernelle brings to the stage only intermittently returns to the production.

From The Wall Street Journal

Once I got through that ordeal—months of chemotherapy, a bone-marrow transplant—I took the task up again, this time with new zeal.

From The Wall Street Journal

As “True Nature” illustrates, “The Snow Leopard” differs from Matthiessen’s previous nonfiction because it melds science with a spiritual quest, incorporating the author’s newfound zeal for Zen Buddhism.

From The Wall Street Journal

It didn’t fit with his zeal for living or his disdain for shortcuts.

From Los Angeles Times