feral
Example Sentences
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Cats, domestic and feral, together take another billion.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026
Researchers say Scotland needs to take a new approach to managing its "expanding" populations of feral pigs.
From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026
The sweet, slightly feral smell of soil shrugging off ice.
From Salon • Mar. 1, 2026
For example, non-native feral hogs are now major predators of loggerhead sea turtle eggs along the Georgia coast, USA, while coyotes in eastern North America are expanding onto coastal barrier islands, altering those ecosystems.
From Science Daily • Feb. 8, 2026
It sinks like a stone, and the rope—which has been gnawed upon by the feral brains—snaps, sending the bell to the irretrievable depths.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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