devil
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Like the devil in that famous ad, it’s their idea of a good time.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026
It could be "very meaningful", he said, but "as always, the devil is in the detail".
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
There was the time — actually, it happened twice — when her character, Dr. Marlena Evans, was famously possessed by the devil and even levitated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
That destructive trend means that there are no known surviving tarot cards depicting the devil from that period.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
“What the devil has she got to be furious about? It’s not her bit of china.”
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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
As Mr. Wright reminds us, both Benjamin Franklin and Mark Twain started as printer’s devils.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
Ash devils occur when heat from a fire causes hot air to rise and mix with the cool air from shifting winds, called wind shears.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2026
“The Conjuring” series, “Ready Or Not,” “Weapons,” “Longlegs” and “Bring Her Back” are all about witches, devils or Satan-worshippers.
From Salon ● Apr. 1, 2026
The hazmats sometimes call the dust storms dust devils.
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
Paramount Caviar’s kosher salmon roe adds a delicious salty, briny pop to deviled eggs, hash browns with whipped cream cheese and dill, or toast points with crème fraîche.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
So spend a little time in the Witch’s Cottage, and maybe you’ll start to imagine that cocktail is a potion, and those deviled eggs did in fact hatch from a dragon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 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
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
I had just finished deviling eggs in the upstairs kitchen.
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
When they ain't devilling the life out of their step-mother they're worrying somebody else.
From Under Fire by Cox, C. B.
He had, during the last four years, done a good deal of "devilling"; he had attended at the Old Bailey watching for "soups" with untiring patience.
From Mike Fletcher A Novel by Moore, George (George Augustus)
And the devilling and the creaming are sometimes better than the chocolate and the biscuit.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George
She would take no pleasure in devilling a man.
From The Heart of the Range by White, William Patterson
The department and the Pinkertons have been devilling the life out of me about it for nine months.
From The Lost Road by Davis, Richard Harding
