savagely
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Linda alone sees how precariously Willy is clinging to life, and Ms. Metcalf’s forceful turn—I was all but pinned to the back of my seat—reveals how savagely she will fight to save Willy from himself.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
A consolation on a savagely hard game, but something.
From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026
A bitter, arrogant striver, Walter encouraged his son to act, only to savagely criticize him when he did so, which confused and angered his son.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2024
“I didn’t yet have the words for what happened to me,” says Dylan, the narrator of “The Lookback Window,” Kyle Dillon Hertz’s gripping and savagely beautiful debut novel.
From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2023
He sat on the edge of the unmade bed and gnawed savagely at the broken, dirty ends of his fingernails.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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