wild
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Though clever with nature apps, the Global Positioning System and sourcing from social media, she’s often reminded that wild creatures don’t keep precise appointments with time and place.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
They also added that the plan to put the three of them together was a "wild card decision" by producers, which took them all by surprise.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
These events are marked by unusually warm Pacific waters but raise the odds of wild weather thousands of miles away, from floods in Peru to droughts in Africa and wildfires in Australia.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
“We know this because cats’ closest evolutionary relatives, African wild cats, meow.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
“I know, Grandpa,” I said, “but that monkey’s not tame. He’s as wild as a hoot owl.”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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But Joey Ortiz was pickier, and Sasaki was wilder.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
America had its latchkey generation and, along with that, a growing sense that the world is a dangerous place, especially its wilder parts.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
"They show that local people can play a direct role in restoring nature and shaping a wilder future."
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
According to Elizabeth Margulis’s fascinating “Transported,” these dreams are wilder, more autobiographical and more communal than ordinary moments of mind-wandering.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
They turn onto a bumpy road off the highway, which grows bumpier and bumpier as it climbs up into wilder, more desolate country.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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The success of Strangers has exceeded their wildest expectations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Wall Street endured a painful selloff on Wednesday, as new Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh presided over one of the wildest Fed decision days for markets in recent memory.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
“Having this opportunity to have tickets for these kids and families, it’s going to be beyond their wildest dreams,” said Washington, who volunteered in the opening ceremony at the 1984 L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
But this is beyond the wildest dreams of Pentagons past.
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026
You know that shirt you have that says, “I am my ancestor’s wildest dream”? That’s what I’m trying to do here; I’m changing the narrative.
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
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Or is there space still wilded enough for fleeting magic in suburban sprawl?
From Salon ● May 10, 2024
He’s also been wilding out on Truth Social, uncorking a series of posts that are unhinged, even for him.
From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2025
Like a pack of wilding drunks, they’re destroying habitats, contaminating water with their wallowing and feces, eroding topsoil and generally making a mess of things.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 10, 2023
Every night on Clubhouse, people are just wilding.
From The Verge ● Feb. 1, 2022
I was like, “They’re really wilding out here in New York.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2021
They were still wilding and messing with people and putting out squad tracts.
From "145th Street: Short Stories" by Walter Dean Myers
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