feral

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The virus is better known in the U.S. for sweeping through dairy herds, where it infected dozens of dairy workers, millions of cows and thousands of wild, feral and domestic mammals.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026

Where feral pigs are present, land managers are encouraged to control their numbers to manage their impacts on agriculture and the environment.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026

The sweet, slightly feral smell of soil shrugging off ice.

From Salon • Mar. 1, 2026

Among the precursors of the two-part documentary “Wild Boys: Strangers in Town” is Francois Truffaut’s “The Wild Child” of 1970, the dramatized story of Victor of Aveyron, the celebrated feral enfant of late 1700s France.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026

Though he was tall as a wolf, he moved differently, and his brown eyes lacked the feral sharpness she had seen in those beasts.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo