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What is qui vive?

What is qui vive? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. a state of heightened vigilance, especially prior to battle
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Among those who took the trouble to do so was Laurence Olivier, ever on the qui vive for something new.
Brice Pauset, inherited this complexity in his notations. In addition, in his recent works, he asked the musicians to introduce precise, rhythmic elements, putting them constantly on the qui vive.
By the summer of 1955, I was always on the qui vive for employment that would allow me the time I wanted.
Meanwhile, authors who don't feel the itch to moonlight use a lot of ingenuity to keep their series sleuths on the qui vive.
You may imagine we are all on the qui vive, and anxious, for we hear all the firing.
Expectation was on the qui vive, for the Forward was going out with the tide.

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