How to Use fervid in a Sentence
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The icy cornucopia of the fifties is flushed out in the fervid deliquescence of the sixties.
—Frank Guan, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2022
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Instead, the case for Trump swiftly shifts to a fervid case against Hillary Clinton.
—David Frum, The Atlantic, 2 Nov. 2016
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In our era of fervid careerism and content creation, this seems almost like a form of madness.
—Chris Wiley, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2022
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That kind of fervid rhetoric comes close to crossing the line, says one former prosecutor.
—Declan McCullagh, WIRED, 14 Apr. 2000
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The possibility of a rich, ambiguous, fervid response to love or the chance of love is over.
—Colm Tóibín, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2016
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The goal isn’t to turn Murray into Saints quarterback Drew Brees, who gives fervid speeches to teammates on the field before games.
—Kent Somers, azcentral, 29 Nov. 2019
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Cain’s story elicited a wave of public support and fervid criticism of Salazar and Nike.
—oregonlive, 16 Nov. 2019
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But he’s also seen how James Harrison deployed that as a strategy to create a fervid fan base.
—Ben Baskin, SI.com, 18 Apr. 2018
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In Israel, people active in causes the Adelsons have aided said that Ms. Adelson was even more fervid in her views than her husband.
—New York Times, 12 Jan. 2021
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Ms. Shah’s presentations are neater but no less fervid.
—Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2016
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Kitchens would be wise to dial up a few vertical passes on 1st-and-10, when the defense is inherently most predictable and its pass rush less fervid.
—Andy Benoit, SI.com, 25 Sep. 2019
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From the Sparkle Lounge proves the band still had plenty of gas left even after three decades, launching with a compelling lead hook and holding tight with an incredible rhythm section and fervid guitars.
—Christa Titus, Billboard, 27 Oct. 2017
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For the GOP senators, holding the line may depend on convincing swing voters and their own base to discount the fervid rhetoric and remember their policy record.
—Mene Ukueberuwa, WSJ, 31 Dec. 2020
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The abrupt nature of Lee’s death has been a matter of fervid speculation for decades, with some fans over the years even hypothesizing that the star was assassinated.
—J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 21 Nov. 2022
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On the conference circuit, where the goals of the revolution were the subject of fervid debate, Penuma surgeons argued that urologists were at a crossroads.
—Ava Kofman, ProPublica, 26 June 2023
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In stadium negotiations, fervid decades-long support for the Bills throughout Western New York strengthened the team’s hand.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2022
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But Cass’s photographs brimming with players are just as delightfully unsettling — fervid and chaotic, yet contained within the graceful restraints of the game and the field.
—Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Feb. 2021
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There is here a strain of fervid and sometimes apocalyptic Christianity.
—Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 17 Nov. 2020
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In recent days, a fervid swarm of student activists has overtaken Connecticut College.
—Peter Gattuso, National Review, 2 Mar. 2023
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Formed in 2016, the comedy music group has become a poster child for how to be successful in the social media age, and increasingly among fervid musical theater fandoms.
—Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2023
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Remember when there was a fervid debate heading into the 2015 draft: Jameis Winston or Marcus Mariota?
—Ben Baskin, The MMQB, 23 June 2017
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Its attraction of gravity, the grip on its creatures maintained through its fervid bowels, its harmonious motion weakened.
—Ed Park, The New York Review of Books, 8 Apr. 2020
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Fan support was particularly fervid in Revere, where more than 100 people filed into the school’s auditorium for the watch party.
—Katie Mogg, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Dec. 2022
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The mood in Minneapolis had shifted from one of fervid insurrection to fatigue—a kind of dazed astonishment at all that had happened, and tentative uncertainty about what to do now.
—Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 15 June 2020
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But news of the party’s kickoff, announced by the quiet, businesslike Shahbaz Sharif, was swept aside by blanket media coverage and fervid speculation on the court ruling and its probable impact on the Sharif family in the coming election.
—Pamela Constable, Washington Post, 6 July 2018
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That music is fervid enough in its original context, and the idea of turning it into an actual symphony — not just a suite that serves as a compilation of tunes and other thematic material — should be its own form of madness.
—Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 May 2018
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The fervid speculation over what Rolex would announce at Watches & Wonders—now an annual ritual amongst the global watch community—is finally at an end.
—Nick Scott, Robb Report, 30 Mar. 2022
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But Milburn puts an original spin on the familiar beats of the backwoods shock genre thanks to his hallucinatory storytelling, John Mehrmann’s unnerving score and Spielberg’s fervid performance.
—Erik Piepenburg, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2021
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In the mid-70s he and Kenny Davern — also a clarinetist and soprano saxophonist — formed Soprano Summit, an all-star combo whose fervid renditions of old repertoire made it a favorite among fans of traditional jazz.
—Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2019
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For most of Tuesday, the same surreal situation continued, but with fervid speculation about the eventual announcement that Bolsonaro would make.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2022
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