wolf
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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