élan vital

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Noun
  • 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
  • Pressing ahead: Amid war in Gaza, some Chicago-area Palestinians risking travel to homeland for olive harvest season For some, olive trees are the lifeblood of Palestinian culture, representing so much more than a pickled or pressed fruit.
    Shanzeh Ahmad, Chicago Tribune, 12 Apr. 2025
  • From delivering newborns to providing care to flight crew at an airline headquarters, healthcare has been her lifeblood.
    Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 11 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • Find the little trans child that is ruining your life.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 10 Apr. 2025
  • However, evidence increasingly suggests that early in its life, Mars was a warm and wet planet much like our own.
    Jonathan O’Callaghan, JSTOR Daily, 10 Apr. 2025
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“élan vital.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/%C3%A9lan%20vital. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.

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