devil
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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
Footage captured on Sunday in Greenwich Park, south-east London, showed a small whirlwind, or dust devil, swirling around people.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
The dust devil passes as quickly as it came.
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
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
Dust storms and spinning dust devils sweep across the surface, continually reshaping the landscape and driving processes that scientists are only beginning to fully understand.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 5, 2026
“If you want to see some real devils then all you have to do is stay here!” she hissed at the boy as she pushed her way past him.
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
Paramount Caviar’s kosher salmon roe adds a delicious salty, briny pop to deviled eggs, hash browns with whipped cream cheese and dill, or toast points with crème fraîche.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 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
Rachel passed a big platter of delicious deviled eggs.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
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
But he got his biggest cheers when he returned to deviling his absent rivals.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
I had just finished deviling eggs in the upstairs kitchen.
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
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
When they ain't devilling the life out of their step-mother they're worrying somebody else.
From Under Fire by C. B. Cox
And the devilling and the creaming are sometimes better than the chocolate and the biscuit.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury
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
Prepare the lobster as for devilling, omitting, however, the mustard.
From Miss Parloa's New Cook Book by Maria Parloa
Well, I shall win because I want nothing but my fare to London to start there to-morrow earning my own living by devilling for Honoria.
From Mrs. Warren's Profession by Bernard Shaw
