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devil

[dev-uhl] / ˈdɛv əl /


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“When the conversation turns to increasing taxes, the devil is in the details,” Schwabish said.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026

"The right choice ultimately depends on borrowers being confident they can stomach future rises. The devil is in the detail," said Rachel Springall from Moneyfacts.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

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

“But it was very different. I had the orphanage, I had the legend of the fetuses and a ghost; and I had the devil live in the monastery.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

The dust devil passes as quickly as it came.

From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga

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

Mojtaba will continue his father’s search for foreign devils.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026

Scientists later realized that the sounds came from the very center of the dust devils.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 29, 2025

Katie and Maggie and June are dressing up as devils for Halloween.

From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy

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

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

It is all preparation of frilly dresses, cakes, deviled eggs, and the anticipation of proper dancing and other carefully prescribed and restrained social interactions between the sexes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026

With that, the former king of a former Wall Street lifted the plate that held his appetizer and asked, sweetly, “Would you like a deviled egg?”

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

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

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

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

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

They were devilling him over at Trabue's office awhile ago about his failure and your big success.

From Ann Boyd by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben

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 George Saintsbury

Prepare the lobster as for devilling, omitting, however, the mustard.

From Miss Parloa's New Cook Book by Maria Parloa

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

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 George (George Augustus) Moore


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