wild
Example Sentences
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Advocates want the state to dedicate $15 million a year to bring back specialists focused on resolving conflicts between people and wild animals.
From Los Angeles Times
The front-month silver contract swung in a range of more than 20 percentage points during wild trading, finishing the day lower and bringing the metal’s total decline to 33% over the past two sessions.
In the chaos that followed, thousands of terrorists were able to escape, vanish, and melt back into the wild.
The wild thing is, she actually grew up on Maui, so she and Dad have a lot in common.
From Literature
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It was a meeting typical of what everyone had come to expect from Mullineaux—warnings of danger cushioned in a peaceful voice, wild fears and rumors tempered by the limits of past eruptions.
From Literature
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