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In a story told with verve, Sands chronicles 40 years of efforts to restore the Chagos island archipelago to Mauritius from the United Kingdom.—Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2024 Maybe Happy Ending showed some verve, jumping $116,215 over the previous week to $707,628 and filling 88% of seats at the Belasco.—Greg Evans, Deadline, 3 Dec. 2024 The French maison makes gorgeous options with angled ends for extra verve, whether hanging loose or more discreetly knotted.—Tom Stubbs, Robb Report, 30 Nov. 2024 The verve of moment and color translate into bold strokes that unravel grand narratives of social history.—Emiliano Tahui Gómez, Austin American-Statesman, 16 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for verve
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French, from Middle French, caprice, from Old French, word, gossip, from Vulgar Latin *verva, from Latin verba, plural of verbum word — more at word
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