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devil

[dev-uhl] / ˈdɛv əl /


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That day, he also saw groups of uniquely colored manta rays — some were a tan brown, and others were gray with a black stripe, called spinetail devil rays.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

The devil will be in the details of the report — and the cost of housing could tilt the scales.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026

Its unusual, almost supernatural appearance inspired its name: Thismia daemona, the "devil flower."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

"The devil will be in the detail," Menon summarised on the talks with Burnham.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

When Eblis walked up and kissed the king on his shoulders, two things happened: The devil disappeared into a sudden burst of smoke, and the king grew two snakes from his shoulders.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

Dust devils are formed on warm, sunny days and are visible due to the dust or hay that they pick up and swirl around.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

In Naiguata, a small coastal town famous for its traditional "dancing devils" festival, Cesar Rendon, 49, a former inmate who lived in the town's halfway house, confides that he "unburdened himself" with Apostol.

From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026

As early as the Revolutionary War, their value to the young nation was such that the Continental Congress exempted printer’s devils from army service.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

The rover recorded 55 electrical discharges during dust devils and the leading edges of dust storms.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 5, 2026

But I also can’t stop thinking about dust devils.

From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga

Yesterday, we shared Bobby Flay’s story of making deviled eggs with his mother, and we asked what the first thing you learned to cook was.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

“Her methodology feels very Eastern European in male and female relationships and dynamics,” Sokol explains as her guests pick at deviled eggs and brie cheese with manicured nails.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026

Over deviled eggs and hash I finally felt comfortable in my own seat.

From Slate ● Feb. 22, 2026

It is all preparation of frilly dresses, cakes, deviled eggs, and the anticipation of proper dancing and other carefully prescribed and restrained social interactions between the sexes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026

Inside it were leftovers from somebody’s lunch: a deviled ham sandwich, a piece of Swiss cheese, part of a hard-boiled egg, and the core of a wormy apple.

From "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White

They included flavors from an elaborately moulded and colored iced spinach à la crème, to little devilled ices in cups.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2023

At La Mercerie, in SoHo, the dish looks more like oeufs mimosa, or devilled eggs, with the cavity of each egg half filled with mayonnaise and sprinkled with grated yolk.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 9, 2018

Not long ago, she won first prize in the annual church fair for her hot devilled crab cakes.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 19, 2015

Meanwhile, if The Neighbors, about a couple moving into a gated community populated by extraterrestrials, were a canapé, it would be a molecular-gastronomy mishap, and Malibu Country a slightly-off devilled egg.

From Slate ● May 16, 2012

Tender freshwater shrimp garnished with cream and rose leaves, devilled barley pearls in acorn purée, apple and carrot chews, marinated cabbage stalks steeped in creamed white turnip with nutmeg.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

While his Scots friends are deviling the English on the border, Pierre lands in Cornwall and tries to dethrone Tudor King Henry VII.

From Time Magazine Archive

After first appearing on the West Coast, shortages have cropped up throughout the Midwest and are now be deviling construction in the East, partly because West Coast builders have been snapping up supplies.

From Time Magazine Archive

But he got his biggest cheers when he returned to deviling his absent rivals.

From Time Magazine Archive

The trucks barreled down the long, winding road, their passengers silenced by the dust deviling up and by the heat.

From "The Devil's Arithmetic" by Jane Yolen

I had just finished deviling eggs in the upstairs kitchen.

From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles

When they ain't devilling the life out of their step-mother they're worrying somebody else.

From Under Fire by C. B. Cox

They were devilling him over at Trabue's office awhile ago about his failure and your big success.

From Ann Boyd by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben

In English legal phraseology "devil" and "devilling" are used of barristers who act as substitutes for others.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" by Various

The girls were devilling the life out of him to look it up.

From Berry And Co. by Dornford Yates

The department and the Pinkertons have been devilling the life out of me about it for nine months.

From The Lost Road by Richard Harding Davis


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