devil
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Medicare plans might look the same on the surface, but the devil is in details like copayments, deductibles, and covered drugs.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
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
“We always had this idea of the angel and the devil influences on Tony and the two paths that were laid in front of him,” Howe says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
“Means when someone brings in the devil when they supposed to just be talkin’ ’bout spiders.”
From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña
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
Scientists later realized that the sounds came from the very center of the dust devils.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 29, 2025
Their footsteps and the occasional breeze were stirring up small devils of dust.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
Wells Fargo did note that prices for some common cookout sides are lower from this time last year, with the cost to make deviled eggs down 14%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
“Her methodology feels very Eastern European in male and female relationships and dynamics,” Sokol explains as her guests pick at deviled eggs and brie cheese with manicured nails.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026
Over deviled eggs and hash I finally felt comfortable in my own seat.
From Slate ● Feb. 22, 2026
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
Rachel passed a big platter of delicious deviled eggs.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
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
But he got his biggest cheers when he returned to deviling his absent rivals.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
Prepare the lobster as for devilling, omitting, however, the mustard.
From Miss Parloa's New Cook Book by Maria Parloa
The department and the Pinkertons have been devilling the life out of me about it for nine months.
From The Lost Road by Richard Harding Davis
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
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