fierceness
Example Sentences
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Chemaf’s founder, Shiraz Virji, son of a Zanzibar spice merchant, once hired dozens of Gurkhas, Nepalese soldiers with a reputation for fierceness, to guard one of the company’s mines against incursions by informal miners.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
“The fierceness and price and cost demands of China’s markets make the winners emerging from here far more globally fit than most any other country’s environment will produce.”
From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2025
The fierceness of the defence obviously stayed with Goldie - he later saw a poodle and hastily flew away.
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2025
There’s a fierceness to the romantic doom of the new “Nosferatu,” a muscular fatalism achingly vulnerable and ferocious, feminine and masculine, both and neither.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2024
I did not want to surrender fierceness for a small gain in yardage.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
