élan

noun

Definition of élannext
as in zeal

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Recent Examples of élan Trending on Billboard What comes next is a clinic in classic Jackson, with the singer popping, locking and skittering across the club’s floor while executing some of his signature spins and fancy footwork while breaking hearts and deftly dispatching would-be assassins with his signature elan. — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 30 Oct. 2024 The Orioles have adeptly selected their times to be aggressive on the bases After more than three hours of tense back and forth Wednesday night in the Bronx, the Orioles finished the Yankees not with their trademark power but with base running elan. — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 21 June 2024 Oval watches aren’t exactly rare, but they rarely have been executed with such elan and sophistication. — Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 9 May 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for élan
  1. zeal
  2. fervor
  3. verve
  4. brio
  5. gusto
  6. vigor
  7. ardor
  8. vitality
Noun
  • In its zeal to release unredacted secret documents from the government’s JFK assassination files, the Trump administration has made public the Social Security numbers and other sensitive personal information of potentially hundreds of former congressional staffers and other people.
    — Josh Meyer, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Real Salt Lake’s broadcasters, Spencer Warne and Jay Nolly, expressed surprise at the visitors’ zeal for pressing, especially late in the match.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2025
Definition of zeal
Noun
  • With a fervor that is another aspect of his ongoing meaning to the franchise — a legendary work ethic that remains the model.
    — Vahe Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 16 Mar. 2025
  • But – again, in Crutchfield’s view – the Sharks did not pursue the ball with their usual fervor.
    — Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 16 Mar. 2025
Definition of fervor
Noun
  • Kuroda is tasked with carrying the load on her shoulders and delivers, singing and dancing with exhausting verve while dipping into the emotional demands of a character atoning inside her long life.
    — David John Chávez, The Mercury News, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Paleontologist and science writer Riley Black aims to give evolutionary biology the narrative drive and verve of fiction.
    — Richard Horan, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Mar. 2025
Definition of verve
Noun
  • The untethered, anarchic, comic brio of Robbins’ novels feels incompatible with today’s world, as though the intervening years have been explicitly designed to stamp out this spirit and replace it with something that can be bought and sold, something governable.
    — John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 22 Feb. 2025
  • At Atletico, his natural brio repeatedly slammed into the brick wall of Diego Simeone’s personality.
    — Jack Lang, The Athletic, 9 Feb. 2025
Definition of brio
Noun
  • Across 10 tracks, Young wittily indulges her insecurities, rails against narcissistic exes, and embraces unrepentant vulnerability, all with gusto.
    — Audra Heinrichs, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Comedian Judy Gold, soap opera great Susan Lucci and Tony Award winner Tonya Pinkins deliver the monologues with gusto in the show through March 23.
    — Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 13 Mar. 2025
Definition of gusto
Noun
  • Anthony Bourdain was an exception who brought real vigor and energy to the genre.
    — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2025
  • By the beginning of the 1990s, studios like Pixar, Aardman, and Blue Sky revitalized animation in the English-speaking world and brought a vigor to the art form that led to the formation of the Best Animated Feature category.
    — Jeremy Fassler, Vulture, 2 Mar. 2025
Definition of vigor
Noun
  • Charles’ ardor also applies to Herb’s former musical and romantic partner, Nell Mortimer (Mulligan).
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Mar. 2025
  • But any non-cynic can’t help but be swept up in its doomed ardor. 54.
    — Will Leitch, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025
Definition of ardor
Noun
  • This was most viscerally expressed in my living room – playing with the color orange, which traditionally represents joy, vitality, imagination, and pride.
    — Virginia Cumberbatch, Essence, 27 Mar. 2025
  • The principal vectors of income, each integral to the financial vitality of these institutions, include: Broadcasting Revenue Preeminent among all income sources, broadcasting rights constitute the financial cornerstone of most elite clubs.
    — Priya Oberoi, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
Definition of vitality

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