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werewolf

[wair-woolf, weer-, wur-] / ˈwɛərˌwʊlf, ˈwɪər-, ˈwɜr- /


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There’s not even one shot of the moon that I can remember, and our first werewolf sighting takes place after dawn.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2025

The dangers of even one of them being a werewolf are so obvious they need not be expounded upon.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 27, 2023

On the right is a snarling werewolf, labeled “Seattle in the news.”

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 23, 2023

If you were a fan of “Teddy,” that other oddball French drama about a young werewolf, you’ll fall for this film’s charms.

From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2023

Almost uniquely among fantastic creatures, the werewolf actively seeks humans in preference to any other kind of prey.

From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling

Brandy Carlton, one of Torres’s first customers, buys the biggest package every year and sometimes incorporates a theme like werewolves or skeletons into the design.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2025

She was also known for the Night World novels, which also feature vampires as well as witches, werewolves and shapeshifters, who secretly live among the human race.

From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2025

If werewolves might mutate only once, he and the makeup and special-effects teams make it as painful as possible: loose teeth, shedding hair, roiling knuckles, flimsy fingernails.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2025

And while Quibi focused on more highbrow content with A-list stars, ReelShort is doing the opposite: It’s giving people juicy plot points, from werewolves to evil step mothers to secret billionaire husbands to more werewolves.

From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2024

As long as the person you’re talking to has an earpiece that picks up the sound, you could have totally private conversations in a crowded room—assuming there aren’t any werewolves around.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston




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