devil
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The devil will be in the details of the report — and the cost of housing could tilt the scales.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
Its unusual, almost supernatural appearance inspired its name: Thismia daemona, the "devil flower."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
"The devil will be in the detail," Menon summarised on the talks with Burnham.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
“I was trying to be the devil onstage and somehow ended up as likable anyway,” he says of his storied career.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
The sly old devil was definitely up to something, he was certain of it.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
Although he produced little in 1936, Klee’s last three years were increasingly prolific, and his subjects—death, violence, devils and angels—grew otherworldly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
In Naiguata, a small coastal town famous for its traditional "dancing devils" festival, Cesar Rendon, 49, a former inmate who lived in the town's halfway house, confides that he "unburdened himself" with Apostol.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
Ash devils are dangerous because they can spit out hot ash and start new fires in all directions.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2026
Mars is constantly swept by winds that lift fine dust into spinning whirlwinds known as dust devils.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 29, 2025
Suddenly the whole village saw witches and devils everywhere, and fear lived in every cottage.
From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman
Come to the Witch’s Cottage in NoHo for the hidden wonders, but stay for dragon-themed deviled eggs and rum-heavy cocktails.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2026
Over deviled eggs and hash I finally felt comfortable in my own seat.
From Slate ● Feb. 22, 2026
Short remembered how Beckstrom loved cooking, baking and gardening, canning hot peppers, and eating deviled eggs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 29, 2025
Naturally, it now promotes potatoes as a trick-or-treat option—or “trick-or-tater,” as the association puts it—and suggests any number of Halloween-themed potato recipes, such as one for Devilish Potatoes, a twist on deviled eggs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
In his spare time, Louie crashed society weddings, worked as a movie extra, and harassed his housemates with practical jokes, replacing their deviled ham with cat food and milk with milk of magnesia.
From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand
They included flavors from an elaborately moulded and colored iced spinach à la crème, to little devilled ices in cups.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2023
At La Mercerie, in SoHo, the dish looks more like oeufs mimosa, or devilled eggs, with the cavity of each egg half filled with mayonnaise and sprinkled with grated yolk.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 9, 2018
Not long ago, she won first prize in the annual church fair for her hot devilled crab cakes.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 19, 2015
Meanwhile, if The Neighbors, about a couple moving into a gated community populated by extraterrestrials, were a canapé, it would be a molecular-gastronomy mishap, and Malibu Country a slightly-off devilled egg.
From Slate ● May 16, 2012
Tender freshwater shrimp garnished with cream and rose leaves, devilled barley pearls in acorn purée, apple and carrot chews, marinated cabbage stalks steeped in creamed white turnip with nutmeg.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
After first appearing on the West Coast, shortages have cropped up throughout the Midwest and are now be deviling construction in the East, partly because West Coast builders have been snapping up supplies.
From Time Magazine Archive
But he got his biggest cheers when he returned to deviling his absent rivals.
From Time Magazine Archive
While his Scots friends are deviling the English on the border, Pierre lands in Cornwall and tries to dethrone Tudor King Henry VII.
From Time Magazine Archive
I had just finished deviling eggs in the upstairs kitchen.
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
The trucks barreled down the long, winding road, their passengers silenced by the dust deviling up and by the heat.
From "The Devil's Arithmetic" by Jane Yolen
Pam's declaration that 'war' was possible in certain emergencies—when, for instance, the king should have been crucified and the princesses vanished—was the only thing like devilling I heard from him yet.
From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II by Edmund Downey
They would be better employed taking a walk, devilling for some investigator, browsing in museums or libraries, or even arguing with each other.
From Cambridge Essays on Education by Various
The girls were devilling the life out of him to look it up.
From Berry And Co. by Dornford Yates
In English legal phraseology "devil" and "devilling" are used of barristers who act as substitutes for others.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" by Various
Well, I shall win because I want nothing but my fare to London to start there to-morrow earning my own living by devilling for Honoria.
From Mrs. Warren's Profession by Bernard Shaw
