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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.
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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
Chucho and Correa become good friends as well, as the principal is won over by the new teacher’s creativity, commitment and elan.
—Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
And that kind of sucks for the United States, who have come to expect some style and elan from their spin zone.
—Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 16 June 2023
Cotton-linen blends have the advantage of being slightly less see-through than full linen shirts and will crease a little less, but a linen shirt has a certain elan that can’t be beat in the heat.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 13 Mar. 2023
Few working journalists have written history with as much elan and narrative force as the British author Paul Johnson, who died this week at age 94.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2023
With soulful elan, Rait, 72, and Staples, 83, delivered a stirring master class in musical excellence, emotional fervor and the art of simultaneously entertaining and uplifting an audience.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Dec. 2022
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
Chucho and Correa become good friends as well, as the principal is won over by the new teacher’s creativity, commitment and elan.
—Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
And that kind of sucks for the United States, who have come to expect some style and elan from their spin zone.
—Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 16 June 2023
Cotton-linen blends have the advantage of being slightly less see-through than full linen shirts and will crease a little less, but a linen shirt has a certain elan that can’t be beat in the heat.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 13 Mar. 2023
Few working journalists have written history with as much elan and narrative force as the British author Paul Johnson, who died this week at age 94.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2023
With soulful elan, Rait, 72, and Staples, 83, delivered a stirring master class in musical excellence, emotional fervor and the art of simultaneously entertaining and uplifting an audience.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Dec. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for élan
Noun
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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
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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
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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
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But – again, in Crutchfield’s view – the Sharks did not pursue the ball with their usual fervor.—
Walter Villa,
Miami Herald,
16 Mar. 2025
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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
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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
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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
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At Atletico, his natural brio repeatedly slammed into the brick wall of Diego Simeone’s personality.—
Jack Lang,
The Athletic,
9 Feb. 2025
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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
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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
Noun
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Anthony Bourdain was an exception who brought real vigor and energy to the genre.—
Nina Metz,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Mar. 2025
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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
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Charles’ ardor also applies to Herb’s former musical and romantic partner, Nell Mortimer (Mulligan).—
Peter Rainer,
The Christian Science Monitor,
25 Mar. 2025
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But any non-cynic can’t help but be swept up in its doomed ardor. 54.—
Will Leitch,
Vulture,
3 Mar. 2025
Noun
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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
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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
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“élan.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/%C3%A9lan. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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