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with a will
Idioms and Phrases
Vigorously, energetically, as in He started pruning with a will . This term, first recorded in 1848, uses will in the sense of “determination.”Example Sentences
He left the war with lasting physical and emotional scars and, like such fellow veterans as Joseph Heller and Kurt Vonnegut, with a will to find words for what had happened.
When someone dies with a will that states how property should be distributed, it makes the transfer of property easy.
"I've seen it before, the truth is out there somewhere and can be found by those with a will to find it."
Vasyl Samokhvalov of RMA paid tribute to Sasha Bondarenko as a man who volunteered on day one: "A human with a will of steel. A human with the clearest motivation. A human with the best music playlist."
The site opened to the public in 1987, but when Judd died unexpectedly seven years later, at 65, with a will dictating that his works be “preserved where they are installed” for study and appreciation, its staff needed to find money to make that happen.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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