fierce
Example Sentences
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Defense lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella, an outsider from the port city of Barranquilla who uses fierce rhetoric when talking about illegal armed groups, has promised to trim the size of the government by 40%.
This week, Mississippi's environmental regulator gave its green light to the gas generators at a site despite fierce local resistance.
From Barron's
An uptick in demand coupled with the city’s notorious lack of housing supply means that fierce bidding wars are breaking out again for single-family homes and condominiums in desirable neighborhoods.
He grew up in Nazi Germany and in the 1980s took part in a fierce debate with conservative historians who had questioned whether the Holocaust was a singularly German phenomenon.
From BBC
Even those that some of the fiercest critics played in.
From BBC
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