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
  • Rotation is the lifeblood of bull markets and here the rotation is global, from the US to the rest.
    MoneyShow, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
  • At 80 or 70 or 60, expectations created are the lifeblood of sporting hope.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 20 Mar. 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
  • Visually they are individuated, but we are given to know almost nothing about them, and certainly not their inner life.
    Barry Schwabsky, Artforum, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Lego toy for the little ones in your life, plus save on fabric storage bags to keep off-season clothes and bedding organized and dust-free.
    Isabel Garcia, People.com, 1 Apr. 2025
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“élan vital.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/%C3%A9lan%20vital. Accessed 4 Apr. 2025.

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