ferocity

Ultimate fighting cage matches, despite their ferocity, have set rules and time limits, and end with a clear winner and a loser.

From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2026

As Linda, she exudes a tightly coiled ferocity in sharp contrast to the fog of despair in which Willy seems to move.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026

They haven’t piled into single stocks with the same ferocity, and instead they’ve put money into the market through index-tracking ETFs.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 9, 2026

It’s a simple but primal character motivation that Beetz sells with a wild-eyed ferocity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026

There’s something of our mother in this man’s ferocity, something of our father in the way he carries himself.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

Pieces by Ravel and Pablo de Sarasate shone as they should, and the evening’s unlikely centerpiece, Ginastera’s Violin Concerto, was a 30-minute fever dream of serialist fancies and ferocities.

From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2024

Whitman relished these energies; these ferocities in our beings. 

From Slate ● Jan. 9, 2015

Indeed, in this play of gloomy wedlock and ill-starred infidelities, he preaches a sad sermon with his quips and makes Margaret Lawrence, who usually seems bearable if not entrancing, a monstrous brute of conjugal ferocities.

From Time Magazine Archive

The altar boy who might charm the nuns could take on ferocities.

From Time Magazine Archive

It threw the whole zoological ferocities of South Africa open to his unanchored imagination, and for a long time banished sleep from his eyes.

From The Settler and the Savage by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne