devil
Example Sentences
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“While positive, the devil is in the detail and we await FirstRand’s calculation of the required provision which we expect in a matter of weeks,” they say.
“If you are on his good side, he’s very good, but get on his bad side, and he’s the devil himself,” goes one.
"The devil will be in the implementing detail: Metadata on AI content can be removed and Community Notes are relatively rare," he said.
From Barron's
Like amateur detectives, we learn alongside them as they click around pages about Sumerian devils, Catholic saints and the origin of the nursery rhymes “London Bridge” and “Baa, Baa, Black Sheep.”
From Los Angeles Times
Flint often gelled his hair into the shape of two devil horns, of which a silhouette is etched into the backrest of the bench.
From BBC
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