wild
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Jeanne Collopy is an animal lover from Colorado, where horses run wild, she said.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
At one moment, he shares a wild story about the near-mortal travails of sharing a house with Iggy Pop.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
Already the body language experts are running wild, prowling for evidence of negative physical energy between the well-dressed quinquagenarians in pancake makeup.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
That growth rate was about ten times faster than what researchers have observed in wild corals.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
Sometimes, when moon shadows were on the trail and we were hauling things down from the forest, the wild look would come back again.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
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The roles turned out wilder and more varied than he might have expected but his seriousness and sense of fun never faded, pushing boundaries and himself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
America had its latchkey generation and, along with that, a growing sense that the world is a dangerous place, especially its wilder parts.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
"They show that local people can play a direct role in restoring nature and shaping a wilder future."
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
According to Elizabeth Margulis’s fascinating “Transported,” these dreams are wilder, more autobiographical and more communal than ordinary moments of mind-wandering.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
In the end, the music grew wilder as two alarm clocks had a fight.
From "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" by Brian Selznick
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Impressive, perhaps, but it was far from the wildest of Musk’s PR stunts.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026
It all reduces to the promise of small daily actions that, over time, build into the conquest of your wildest dreams.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
"Never in my wildest dreams did I think that a solar project would be on my farm," Cargil says.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
But when the Tigers walloped Clemson 51-10 in the most anticipated matchup of college football’s opening weekend, Kiffin reminded the world that he isn’t content with being the craziest sideshow in America’s wildest sport.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
It was his wildest demonstration of himself, of himself in the kind of world he loved; it was his choreography of peace.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
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Or is there space still wilded enough for fleeting magic in suburban sprawl?
From Salon ● May 10, 2024
"Hollywood is on time out. I'm just going to put that right to the camera. Hollywood is wilding right now."
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2024
“Our young people are out here wilding sometimes, and whatever it takes for us to get them under control, we have to do it,” he said.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2022
For the Bene Gesserit, a religious order of women who influence history from the shadows, the color was a chorus of wilding female voices.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2022
Every night on Clubhouse, people are just wilding.
From The Verge ● Feb. 1, 2022
“They wilding out here,” DeVante says with a chuckle, but grabs his side.
From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas
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