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Recent Examples of brio Part of shutting yourself off to such horrors involves being able to move past them, and Civil War, like its characters, glides past each monstrous vignette with unbothered brio. Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 24 May 2024 Everything is staged with confidence and brio, agreed Charlotte Jones on What's on Stage, and the cast is top-notch. The Week Uk, theweek, 14 Mar. 2024 Brimming with charisma and brio, Trump came from the political wilderness in 2016 to win the presidency, seeming to many the nation’s deliverance from proliferating woes. Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 8 Mar. 2024 Known for his brash attitude and flashy designer suits, super-lobbyist Tony Podesta’s Washington, D.C., mansion, which just sold for $8.2 million, exhibits the same sort of eye-catching brio. Mark David, Robb Report, 25 Jan. 2024 See All Example Sentences for brio
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Noun
  • The fan who caught Flores’ home run ball threw it back on the field with such vigor that the ball ended up in the infield, rolling past Cincinnati’s Elly De La Cruz.
    Justice delos Santos, Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2025
  • April 12: The Full Moon in Libra brings balance back into our lives through partnerships. April 12: Venus turns direct, allowing our romantic feelings to flow. April 16: Mercury moves into Aries again, combining vigor and gusto to our words.
    Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 18 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Silver was the real business of Tombstone, and the focus of its energies and attention.
    Richard Grant, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Thune also often praises wind energy—a booming industry in his home state—even though Trump considers turbines loathsome eyesores.
    David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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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“Brio.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brio. Accessed 10 Apr. 2025.

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