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wild

[wahyld] / waɪld /






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Its stock is up over 40% since January despite recent jitters that exposed chip stocks to wild swings as investors worry about the scale of AI spending, rising interest rates and heavy debt burdens.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

Community members described a wild edible mushroom called "Sedesdem" that could sometimes cause people to see miniature human figures.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

"A wild animal cannot stay in a space made strictly for humans."

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

Joseph Adinolfi looked deeper into the stock market’s wild swings.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

I have built campfires in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, and hunted wild turkey in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee and the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

More frequent and intense weather extremes are expected as a result of climate change, with Wales facing the prospect of wetter, wilder winters more often.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 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

Antosca promises that in the back half of the series, the show will get even wilder and more destabilizing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 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

I thought that the longer this went on the wilder he would get, and so would bring on a fit; so I took him by the hand and raised him up.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

Impressive, perhaps, but it was far from the wildest of Musk’s PR stunts.

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026

Luke said with 250 students in attendance, the response to the launch event had exceeded his "wildest expectations".

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

It all reduces to the promise of small daily actions that, over time, build into the conquest of your wildest dreams.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

Very occasionally, one will say something anodyne—border security is important, police are necessary—that implicitly criticizes the party’s wildest excesses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Only after Penelope had mastered saying “unfurled fern fronds,” tasted the fiddleheads Philippe, and admitted that they were beyond her wildest imaginings of deliciousness, did Miss Mortimer begin to answer her questions.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

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

“Our young people are out here wilding sometimes, and whatever it takes for us to get them under control, we have to do it,” he said.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2022

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 wilding out here,” DeVante says with a chuckle, but grabs his side.

From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas


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