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
Previous research forecast numbers of feral pigs could rise from 1,472 today to about 2,400 by 2075 - an increase of more than 60%.
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
Even dead it looked like a regal hawk, cracked and shattered, but with a beauty still inherent thanks to the feral grace of its lines.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
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