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Recent Examples of Synonyms for élan vital
Noun
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Give your inner light a chance to shine, touch people’s lives and enrich the world around you.—
Eugenia Last,
The Mercury News,
28 Mar. 2024 -
This effect is especially powerful at night, for example when the inner light of the 71 heading downtown from Westwood passes through Beverly Hills, accenting the ruby red glamour of the Beverly Hilton sign and spotlighting the Waldorf Astoria’s platinum one.—
Mark Gozonsky,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Mar. 2024
Noun
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Rotation is the lifeblood of bull markets and here the rotation is global, from the US to the rest.—
MoneyShow,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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At 80 or 70 or 60, expectations created are the lifeblood of sporting hope.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
20 Mar. 2025
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Her work sheds light on issues such as human trafficking and systemic oppression, and Shakti hopes to empower other women through her paintings.—
Daniel Wine,
CNN,
24 July 2024
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The Milky Way’s earliest pieces In a recent paper, researchers using the Gaia space telescope identified two streams of stars, named Shakti and Shiva, each of which contains a total mass of around 10 million Suns and which are thought to have merged into the Milky Way around 12 billion years ago.—
Georgina Torbet,
Ars Technica,
10 June 2024
Noun
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This concept, detailed in his Nicomachean Ethics, links happiness to living a meaningful life in accordance with reason.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes,
20 Mar. 2025
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In 2021, a Facebook post from Combs sang her praises as controlling all aspects of his life.—
Kevin Dolak,
The Hollywood Reporter,
19 Mar. 2025
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“élan vital.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/%C3%A9lan%20vital. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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