boar
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If you should happen to dream up a scene in which a man runs screaming around the jungle with a wild boar strapped to his head, he’s the obvious pick to pull it off.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025
But now the ancient woodland is being revitalised with the pigs - half wild boar, half Tamworth - which are turning over the soil.
From BBC • Dec. 14, 2025
"Where we have problems, and where everyone in Europe has problems, is with the wild boar population, because there is overpopulation," said Higuera.
From Barron's • Dec. 2, 2025
It affects cattle, sheep, pigs and, according to the government, "other cloven-hoofed animals such as wild boar, deer, llamas and alpacas".
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2025
They did not usually hunt the boar on horseback.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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"Beowulf," Vocabulary from the epic poem
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"Boar Out There" by Cynthia Rylant
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