wolf
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A gray wolf was spotted in Lake County, a bright sign that the recovering endangered species is expanding its presence in California, wildlife officials say.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
I’m not sure what’s happening to the wolf, but it is definitely feeling like winter for Djokovic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
"You know the boy that cried wolf? He is the boy that cried wolf," the Emirati said.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
He noted the peninsula had once been home to animals such as pronghorn, sea otter, North American porcupine, Humboldt marten, gray wolf, American black bear, grizzlies, northern fur seal and Steller sea lion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
They’d also destroyed a wolf den on the other side of the gully.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
They’re all gone now, long extinct just like the saber-toothed cats and dire wolves that walked the earth with them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
This, along with farmers and landowners trapping and killing wolves, pushed them to the brink of eradication.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
The Wolf Conservation Center estimates there are around 7,600 gray wolves in the contiguous United States.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
As Toronto Star columnist Liz Renzetti put it recently, “We are wolves in beavers’ clothing.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
And I also learned—as with the wolves and the doe—that I wanted to know more, wanted to know everything there was to know about dogs and the woods and running with a team.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
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
She’s chubby, but it seems like she hasn’t eaten in weeks the way she wolfs her food down, like someone is going to take it away.
From "Sparrow" by Sarah Moon
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
The new wave of burger merchants understands their products are not an everyday food, unlike previous generations, which wolfed them down like chips at a Super Bowl party.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 17, 2021
Four years ago, the late Anthony Bourdain and former President Barack Obama wolfed down cheap bowls of bun cha Hanoi, the Northern Vietnamese noodle specialty, on the travel show “Parts Unknown.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 4, 2019
“Your yearbook looks stunning, Emi,” he said after I’d wolfed down a slice.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
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
He was Joey Chestnut wolfing down hot dogs, but without the prize at the end.
From Slate ● Oct. 4, 2023
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
I let him drift off to sleep then and attend to my own needs, wolfing down a supper of groosling and roots while I watch the daily report in the sky.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
