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[woolf] / wʊlf /


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If you’ve ever hidden how sick you are, then remission can turn you into the boy who didn’t cry wolf.

From Slate ● Nov. 11, 2026

“But this time, I swear, there’s really no wolf there.”

From Slate ● Nov. 11, 2026

It has crept its way into dinner-table fodder at Ellina, where patrons wolf down $89 steaks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

The first gray wolf documented in California since 1924 was a wolf called OR7, who made his way from Oregon to California.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

Even as Torak was wondering how to put that in wolf talk, a man rose from the long-fire and crossed the clearing towards him.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

The park keeps grey and arctic wolves, along with other animals including the brown bear and lynx.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

"I saw chickens, some wolves and some monkeys and then the bears which were definitely my favourite."

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

But when you are successful, first financially and afterward, the wolves come in to find a problem.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

Collaring wolves in a pack that doesn’t already have the devices is challenging, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

It was only now that he was right side up that Admiral Faucet noticed the presence of the wolves.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

Costa conveys nearly everything he needs to simply through his arrangement of the actors’ bodies: The man hungrily wolfs down his food in the foreground, chattering about Joaquim’s kindness and decency.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2020

Alleged assailants in both cases have been painted as lone wolfs acting out of mental instability and disagreement with the politicians’ messages.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 16, 2018

He wheels his bike confidently up to the cafe, birdlike and sprightly in a striped shirt and skinny jeans, and wolfs down an éclair.

From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2016

Even the highest-ranking executive shamelessly wolfs down a taco.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 20, 2015

They were almost as big as a normal pretty’s, but they angled upward like a wolfs.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld

They held court as four-legged guests wolfed down pizza pour chiens, or pizza for dogs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

I don’t know why, but I was suddenly ravenous and wolfed down a dozen saltines and two chocolate chip cookies just to chase the taste of my humiliation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2025

On January 2, I wolfed down a breakfast of dehydrated porridge with Christian Wild, a postdoctoral scholar who works with Pettit.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 18, 2022

Jared said, eyeing me as I wolfed the taco down in three bites.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 21, 2020

How completely different from a fast- food hamburger wolfed down without a moment’s thought in a speeding car.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

I saw something about Messi wolfing on a brisket sandwich at a Buc-ee’s but without video proof, I suspect that may have been an AI hallucination.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

“I would be wolfing down this food,” Walton said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2024

People who viewed the campaign requiring them to imagine themselves wolfing down the French fries indicated a desire to eat fewer chips than those who were exposed to the French fries campaign without consumption imagery.

From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2023

This, of course, was why I was unable to tear myself away from the deck, wolfing down meals and sleeping as little as possible.

From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2021

Children sat in groups, some wolfing down their food and others listlessly picking at it.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia


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