élan vital

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Noun
  • Scorpio Mysterious, magnetic, and maybe just a little bit dangerous: Scorpio, your jewelry needs to match your passion and emulate your true inner light to the outside world.
    Meghan Rose, Glamour, 27 June 2025
  • His eyes still sparkled at times, even as his inner light seemed to be fading.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2025
Noun
  • But reason-giving is the lifeblood of judicial action.
    Noah Feldman, Twin Cities, 16 July 2025
  • Volunteerism has long been the lifeblood of the nonprofit sector.
    Leslye Moore, Forbes.com, 11 July 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
  • Advertisement Launched in 2003 by President George W. Bush, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is widely considered one of America’s most consequential programs in Africa, credited with saving over 25 million lives and scaling back the AIDS epidemic.
    Nik Popli, Time, 15 July 2025
  • Businesses have employees who have built lives, sometimes across generations, in their hometowns and cities.
    Louis Gritzo, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
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“élan vital.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/%C3%A9lan%20vital. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.

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